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 Nigeria and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 snare 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 Cybotron to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Jesper Dahlback. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Cybotron,
Quantec,
Johnny Clarke,
Lalann,
Skarface,
Boz Scaggs,
Little Man,
A Certain Ratio,
Pylon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Divine Comedy,
Spoonie Gee,
Patti Smith,
Mission of Burma,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Zero Boys,
Sonny Sharrock,
Hardrive,
Marcia Griffiths,
Cymande,
Deadbeat,
Erykah Badu,
DJ Sneak,
Bauhaus,
Black Pus,
the Swans,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Amon Düül II,
Newcleus,
Scan 7,
Barrington Levy,
Sällskapet,
Depeche Mode,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Robert Görl,
X-102,
The Searchers,
Young Marble Giants,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Can,
Rites of Spring,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Star Department,
Metal Thangz,
The Sonics,
the Soft Cell,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Dirtbombs,
the Bar-Kays,
Rotary Connection,
Sound Behaviour,
Alice Coltrane,
Tubeway Army,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Black Dice,
Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near.
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.