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 Libya and from Mexico City.
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 Bremen and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Bobby Byrd to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Alice Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lightning Bolt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Saccharine Trust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Derrick May,
The Music Machine,
Theoretical Girls,
Echospace,
Yellowson,
Susan Cadogan,
One Last Wish,
Chrome,
Shuggie Otis,
Tomorrow,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Grass Roots,
48th St. Collective,
Arthur Verocai,
Davy DMX,
Aural Exciters,
Swans,
Unwound,
The Modern Lovers,
Bobby Byrd,
The Detroit Cobras,
Pantaleimon,
The Tremeloes,
Television Personalities,
Isaac Hayes,
Howard Jones,
The Litter,
Erykah Badu,
Y Pants,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Public Image Ltd.,
Suburban Knight,
The Names,
Althea and Donna,
Stiv Bators,
Black Sheep,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Surgeon,
EPMD,
Ituana,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Pet Shop Boys,
Pantytec,
Lyres,
Arcadia,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Remains,
The Motions,
Agitation Free,
The Buckinghams,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Janne Schatter,
Model 500,
The Wake,
Marcia Griffiths,
Girls At Our Best!,
Drive Like Jehu,
Black Moon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Robert Hood,
Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic.
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.