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 Syria and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 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 Popol Vuh to the techno 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 Gabor Szabo. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anthony Braxton record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Hardrive,
Donald Byrd,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
KRS-One,
Moby Grape,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Robert Görl,
Silicon Teens,
Nico,
Animal Collective,
Dual Sessions,
The Fortunes,
The Cramps,
Scrapy,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Derrick Morgan,
Franke,
The Martian,
Nirvana,
Angry Samoans,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Aswad,
In Retrospect,
David McCallum,
Organ,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Drive Like Jehu,
Eve St. Jones,
Todd Terry,
Bob Dylan,
L. Decosne,
kango's stein massive,
DNA,
Sound Behaviour,
Chris Corsano,
The Gladiators,
The Last Poets,
Delta 5,
The Victims,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Kool Moe Dee,
Shoche,
The Modern Lovers,
The Fall,
Clear Light,
Zapp,
The Human League,
DJ Style,
The Dead C,
David Axelrod,
Soft Cell,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
ABBA,
Tommy Roe,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Smiths,
Public Image Ltd.,
the Soft Cell,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Arthur Verocai,
Joy Division,
Second Layer,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.