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 Cameroon 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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Model 500 to the electroclash 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 Selector Dub Narcotic. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Trumans Water record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy Collins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
The Durutti Column,
Jesper Dahlback,
Aswad,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Blues Magoos,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Wings,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Techniques,
Dark Day,
Boogie Down Productions,
Con Funk Shun,
Eli Mardock,
Lebanon Hanover,
Tommy Roe,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Standells,
Prince Buster,
Minor Threat,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pulsallama,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Tears for Fears,
Yusef Lateef,
Dave Gahan,
Erasure,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Associates,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Thee Headcoats,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Amon Düül II,
Drive Like Jehu,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Sonics,
The Music Machine,
Funkadelic,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ornette Coleman,
Harry Pussy,
PIL,
The Fugs,
Henry Cow,
Steve Hackett,
Das Ding,
Tim Buckley,
Amon Düül,
Neil Young,
Joe Finger,
Cymande,
Sparks,
Country Teasers,
Marshall Jefferson,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Dead Boys,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins.
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.