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 Albania and from Manila.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Skatalites to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalo Schifrin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moss Icon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
Jeff Mills,
Josef K,
The Dirtbombs,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Zeros,
Kaleidoscope,
John Foxx,
The Wake,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rapeman,
Black Flag,
Sister Nancy,
Brothers Johnson,
Pagans,
Index,
Mandrill,
Black Pus,
Sun Ra,
Roxette,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Eric Dolphy,
the Human League,
The Detroit Cobras,
Qualms,
Fatback Band,
Saccharine Trust,
Cybotron,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Japan,
Big Daddy Kane,
Rhythm & Sound,
Essential Logic,
Sexual Harrassment,
Todd Terry,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
David Bowie,
Ice-T,
Lucky Dragons,
Babytalk,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Young Marble Giants,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Parry Music,
The Buckinghams,
Gregory Isaacs,
E-Dancer,
Brand Nubian,
Pussy Galore,
Zapp,
The Fugs,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
LL Cool J,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
This Heat,
Lightning Bolt,
Neil Young,
Monolake, Monolake, Monolake, Monolake.
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.