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 Switzerland and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Mandrill to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Star Department. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camberwell Now 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skriet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
The Gladiators,
John Coltrane,
Television Personalities,
Essential Logic,
La Düsseldorf,
Boogie Down Productions,
Rekid,
Accadde A,
Sound Behaviour,
The Dirtbombs,
Iggy Pop,
Depeche Mode,
Minny Pops,
June of 44,
Fugazi,
The Dead C,
Hardrive,
New Age Steppers,
Hasil Adkins,
Andrew Hill,
Goldenarms,
Q and Not U,
KRS-One,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bootsy Collins,
Peter & Gordon,
The Detroit Cobras,
Stockholm Monsters,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Roy Ayers,
Porter Ricks,
The Divine Comedy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Danielle Patucci,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Black Bananas,
Alton Ellis,
Maurizio,
June Days,
Interpol,
Camberwell Now,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Scratch Acid,
The Sonics,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Robert Hood,
Gong,
The Seeds,
Little Man,
Juan Atkins,
Lebanon Hanover,
Magazine,
The Red Krayola,
Half Japanese,
Ultra Naté,
Gil Scott Heron,
Janne Schatter,
Ronnie Foster,
The Stooges,
Sugar Minott,
Letta Mbulu,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
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.