Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from St Lucia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Danielle Patucci to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Skarface. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Avey Tare,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Simply Red,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Grass Roots,
PIL,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Idris Muhammad,
Japan,
Graham Central Station,
Vainqueur,
The Wake,
The Cowsills,
Pagans,
The Blackbyrds,
Bang On A Can,
The Busters,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Associates,
Cecil Taylor,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Beau Brummels,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Fania All-Stars,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Jesper Dahlback,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Fear,
Wire,
The Victims,
Ronnie Foster,
The Moody Blues,
Stereo Dub,
Fela Kuti,
MC5,
The Misunderstood,
Youth Brigade,
Barbara Tucker,
Silicon Teens,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Reagan Youth,
Main Source,
Technova,
Anthony Braxton,
Schoolly D,
Yusef Lateef,
Intrusion,
Rotary Connection,
Lightning Bolt,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Cybotron,
Erasure,
The Slackers,
Moebius,
The Monochrome Set,
Fluxion,
E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.