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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Bologna.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Quadrant to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Traffic Nightmare. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lucky Dragons record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pierre Henry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
Lakeside,
Y Pants,
Young Marble Giants,
Danielle Patucci,
The Fugs,
Circle Jerks,
Wasted Youth,
Ice-T,
Thee Headcoats,
Blake Baxter,
DJ Style,
Grey Daturas,
Kaleidoscope,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Joyce Sims,
Kerri Chandler,
Bang On A Can,
Slave,
Robert Hood,
Loose Ends,
Reuben Wilson,
Alison Limerick,
Mo-Dettes,
Talk Talk,
The Walker Brothers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Motorama,
Hasil Adkins,
L. Decosne,
Soft Machine,
The Invisible,
Sister Nancy,
Reagan Youth,
Robert Wyatt,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ralphi Rosario,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Panda Bear,
Television,
Gastr Del Sol,
Stetsasonic,
The Gap Band,
The J.B.'s,
Fugazi,
Radio Birdman,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Cure,
Jandek,
Ossler,
John Cale,
La Düsseldorf,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
James White and The Blacks,
Rotary Connection,
Livin' Joy,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Raincoats,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs.
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.