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 Ireland and from Bologna.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sun City Girls 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 Dorothy Ashby. All the underground hits.
All Funkadelic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lungfish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gichy Dan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
Rosa Yemen,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Letta Mbulu,
E-Dancer,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Qualms,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Techniques,
Eli Mardock,
Pere Ubu,
Hoover,
Ludus,
Black Moon,
Von Mondo,
Deepchord,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Unwound,
Eurythmics,
Toni Rubio,
Technova,
Massinfluence,
Crispian St. Peters,
Roxette,
Motorama,
10cc,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Eddi Front,
Girls At Our Best!,
Al Stewart,
DJ Style,
New Age Steppers,
Crispy Ambulance,
Robert Hood,
Cheater Slicks,
The Gladiators,
Black Bananas,
Simply Red,
Yazoo,
Pierre Henry,
Television Personalities,
Skriet,
LL Cool J,
Alphaville,
Radiopuhelimet,
Pantaleimon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
H. Thieme,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pagans,
MC5,
Oneida,
Stetsasonic,
Tomorrow,
Moby Grape,
Stiv Bators,
Junior Murvin,
Thompson Twins,
Gang of Four,
Chris & Cosey,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.