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 Tanzania and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Eurythmics to the grime 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 Cluster. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joy Division,
the Sonics,
The Durutti Column,
Kas Product,
Roxette,
Pussy Galore,
The Flesh Eaters,
Wire,
Depeche Mode,
Ultimate Spinach,
It's A Beautiful Day,
10cc,
Albert Ayler,
The Vogues,
Basic Channel,
Sandy B,
Marmalade,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Grey Daturas,
Joyce Sims,
Lalann,
Wolf Eyes,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Country Teasers,
Yazoo,
Section 25,
Jeff Lynne,
Pantytec,
Funky Four + One,
Sällskapet,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Loose Ends,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Freddie Wadling,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Y Pants,
Index,
Ice-T,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Human League,
Harmonia,
Au Pairs,
Agitation Free,
Blossom Toes,
Laurel Aitken,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
A Certain Ratio,
Jandek,
Josef K,
Alphaville,
Echospace,
Faust,
Cal Tjader,
Rotary Connection,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Martian,
David Bowie,
Camberwell Now,
Donald Byrd,
Barbara Tucker,
Maurizio,
Yusef Lateef,
Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt.
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.