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 Malawi and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Cymande to the rock 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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Chris Corsano tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Slackers,
Yazoo,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Mojo Men,
Arcadia,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Buzzcocks,
Mad Mike,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Zeros,
The Index,
Davy DMX,
Colin Newman,
Make Up,
Dorothy Ashby,
The New Christs,
The Detroit Cobras,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Pretty Things,
Scott Walker,
Nas,
Tropical Tobacco,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Modern Lovers,
Sound Behaviour,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
John Foxx,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Brothers Johnson,
Sight & Sound,
Visage,
Lakeside,
Aloha Tigers,
Pantytec,
Fugazi,
Robert Wyatt,
the Swans,
Tomorrow,
kango's stein massive,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Cramps,
Unrelated Segments,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Fad Gadget,
Girls At Our Best!,
Laurel Aitken,
Spandau Ballet,
The Misunderstood,
Reuben Wilson,
Delta 5,
Warsaw,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Germs,
Tears for Fears,
Erykah Badu,
The Knickerbockers,
Arthur Verocai,
Chris Corsano,
Chrome,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.