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 Samoa and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Marine Girls to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Mars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Saints record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mad Mike,
Brothers Johnson,
Sex Pistols,
Soft Machine,
Johnny Clarke,
The Moleskins,
Smog,
Kaleidoscope,
Warren Ellis,
Frankie Knuckles,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Motions,
Sugar Minott,
Davy DMX,
The Standells,
Nick Fraelich,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Shuggie Otis,
Tubeway Army,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joy Division,
the Sonics,
The Vogues,
Avey Tare,
Babytalk,
China Crisis,
Eric B and Rakim,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Real Kids,
Gang Green,
Leonard Cohen,
Lower 48,
Marvin Gaye,
The Offenders,
The Alarm Clocks,
Tommy Roe,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
T.S.O.L.,
The Black Dice,
Sällskapet,
Carl Craig,
Deakin,
Wire,
David McCallum,
The Busters,
MDC,
The Count Five,
Rotary Connection,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
EPMD,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Raincoats,
Dave Gahan,
John Foxx,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ultra Naté,
Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh.
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.