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 Samoa and from Hong Kong.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 marimba 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 Easy Going to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moleskins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
MC5,
Gabor Szabo,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Dorothy Ashby,
Swans,
Adolescents,
Shoche,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Dave Gahan,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Easy Going,
Ponytail,
Television,
Lebanon Hanover,
Swell Maps,
The Monochrome Set,
Smog,
Unrelated Segments,
Model 500,
Pharoah Sanders,
E-Dancer,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Can,
Fluxion,
Scan 7,
Von Mondo,
Metal Thangz,
Dead Boys,
Infiniti,
Al Stewart,
Underground Resistance,
Peter and Kerry,
Iggy Pop,
Ronan,
Howard Jones,
The Victims,
Slick Rick,
Toni Rubio,
The Mummies,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Interpol,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Echospace,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Pantaleimon,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Average White Band,
Amon Düül II,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pierre Henry,
Bush Tetras,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Soft Cell,
Fugazi,
Davy DMX,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Simply Red,
Minnie Riperton,
the Slits,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Scientists,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.