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 Algeria and from Madrid.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Can to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All Das Ding tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liliput 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
Donald Byrd,
Derrick May,
Deepchord,
Minor Threat,
Altered Images,
Gang Green,
Curtis Mayfield,
Eric Dolphy,
Nick Fraelich,
Q and Not U,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Procol Harum,
Scratch Acid,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Soulsonic Force,
Kevin Saunderson,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
8 Eyed Spy,
a-ha,
EPMD,
Mad Mike,
Y Pants,
Rotary Connection,
Young Marble Giants,
Arab on Radar,
Main Source,
The Music Machine,
Skaos,
Ossler,
Von Mondo,
Jacob Miller,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ten City,
Stockholm Monsters,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
CMW,
Camberwell Now,
Zapp,
John Cale,
Metal Thangz,
Andrew Hill,
Kerri Chandler,
Gichy Dan,
Rapeman,
Soul II Soul,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Jeff Lynne,
Electric Prunes,
The Trojans,
Angry Samoans,
Terrestrial Tones,
The United States of America,
The Human League,
Ituana,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Smoke,
Matthew Bourne,
Delon & Dalcan,
Gerry Rafferty,
Todd Terry,
Scientists,
X-101,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.