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 Slovenia and from Johannesburg.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Lalo Schifrin to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Motions. All the underground hits.
All Sexual Harrassment tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a It's A Beautiful Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Fluxion,
Average White Band,
Pere Ubu,
Slave,
Black Bananas,
Ronan,
Eric Dolphy,
Funky Four + One,
Silicon Teens,
Dave Gahan,
The Dead C,
ABBA,
The Doors,
Das Ding,
Bronski Beat,
Minutemen,
Second Layer,
The Barracudas,
FM Einheit,
Barrington Levy,
The Selecter,
Kevin Saunderson,
New York Dolls,
New Order,
Yusef Lateef,
Chris Corsano,
the Human League,
Camouflage,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Cowsills,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Guru Guru,
Al Stewart,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Brass Construction,
Sarah Menescal,
Soft Machine,
The Sound,
Shoche,
Erasure,
Los Fastidios,
E-Dancer,
David Axelrod,
The Vogues,
Johnny Clarke,
The Techniques,
Mandrill,
Peter & Gordon,
Kenny Larkin,
Juan Atkins,
Buzzcocks,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Little Man,
a-ha,
Camberwell Now,
Sällskapet,
Arab on Radar,
The Monks,
Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water.
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.