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 Mexico and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 chamberlin 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 Ponytail to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 June of 44. All the underground hits.
All Malaria! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Moon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Ultimate Spinach,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Adolescents,
Marine Girls,
Roger Hodgson,
Neu!,
Ornette Coleman,
Funkadelic,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Susan Cadogan,
X-102,
The Fugs,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Brand Nubian,
Cymande,
Fugazi,
Soul Sonic Force,
Kurtis Blow,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Zero Boys,
The Human League,
Barrington Levy,
Flash Fearless,
Nirvana,
10cc,
Joensuu 1685,
Cecil Taylor,
The Electric Prunes,
Kaleidoscope,
Roxette,
cv313,
Sonic Youth,
Robert Görl,
Marcia Griffiths,
Janne Schatter,
B.T. Express,
Don Cherry,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Saints,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Basic Channel,
Television,
Albert Ayler,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gil Scott Heron,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Mission of Burma,
Lungfish,
Circle Jerks,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Scion,
The Monks,
June of 44,
Reagan Youth,
Ituana,
Eden Ahbez,
The Seeds,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine.
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.