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 Dominican Republic and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 rhodes 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 Jandek to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Motorama. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
Make Up,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Derrick May,
Q65,
Roxette,
Tom Boy,
Arthur Verocai,
Das Ding,
The Human League,
Suicide,
Bobby Womack,
Rotary Connection,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Slackers,
John Cale,
ABBA,
Kenny Larkin,
Duran Duran,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Smog,
10cc,
Saccharine Trust,
Ralphi Rosario,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Goldenarms,
David McCallum,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Dirtbombs,
Tropical Tobacco,
James White and The Blacks,
The Star Department,
World's Most,
The American Breed,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Angry Samoans,
Cymande,
The Happenings,
8 Eyed Spy,
Pantaleimon,
The Blues Magoos,
LL Cool J,
La Düsseldorf,
The Barracudas,
Bad Manners,
Judy Mowatt,
Sun City Girls,
John Coltrane,
Eve St. Jones,
Nas,
Babytalk,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
David Axelrod,
DJ Style,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Brick,
John Lydon,
Mad Mike,
Big Daddy Kane,
Anakelly,
The Beau Brummels,
One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.
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.