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 Kiribati and from Johannesburg.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Bang on a Can All-Stars to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Barracudas. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys 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 guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Scott Walker,
Black Bananas,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Youth Brigade,
D'Angelo,
Animal Collective,
Scion,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bobby Sherman,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Eurythmics,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
kango's stein massive,
Traffic Nightmare,
the Soft Cell,
Hashim,
The Dead C,
Marc Almond,
Ituana,
Model 500,
Shuggie Otis,
Mandrill,
The Cramps,
Pole,
The Electric Prunes,
F. McDonald,
The Monochrome Set,
The Trojans,
In Retrospect,
Cameo,
Reuben Wilson,
Joe Smooth,
the Bar-Kays,
Eden Ahbez,
The Shadows of Knight,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sun City Girls,
Make Up,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Goldenarms,
Steve Hackett,
La Düsseldorf,
the Normal,
Skaos,
Lucky Dragons,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Anakelly,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Deepchord,
Don Cherry,
The Skatalites,
The Evens,
B.T. Express,
Robert Görl,
New York Dolls,
Chris & Cosey,
Babytalk,
Brick,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.