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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Tokyo.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Johnny Clarke to the jazz 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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
Cecil Taylor,
The Victims,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Fatback Band,
Eden Ahbez,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Byron Stingily,
Ultra Naté,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Depeche Mode,
Roxette,
Suburban Knight,
Sam Rivers,
Banda Bassotti,
Half Japanese,
Deepchord,
Crispian St. Peters,
Hoover,
The Smoke,
Sight & Sound,
Donald Byrd,
Leonard Cohen,
Johnny Osbourne,
Warren Ellis,
Das Ding,
Roger Hodgson,
The Zeros,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Names,
Lou Reed,
Excepter,
The Wake,
Livin' Joy,
Clear Light,
Fear,
Audionom,
Ituana,
Quadrant,
Guru Guru,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Steve Hackett,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Black Pus,
David Axelrod,
X-102,
Hot Snakes,
Henry Cow,
The Searchers,
Young Marble Giants,
Niagra,
The Pop Group,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Doobie Brothers,
Organ,
Tommy Roe,
Grandmaster Flash,
Glenn Branca,
OOIOO,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Alphaville,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.