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 Gambia and from Spokane.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the theremin 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 Newcleus to the electroclash 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 Juan Atkins. All the underground hits.
All Derrick May tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Au Pairs 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monolake,
Echospace,
Bobby Byrd,
B.T. Express,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Gories,
The Motions,
Fear,
Jacques Brel,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Flipper,
Wings,
ABBA,
Faraquet,
Smog,
Dave Gahan,
Jimmy McGriff,
Moebius,
Television Personalities,
Schoolly D,
The Victims,
Susan Cadogan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Prince Buster,
Soulsonic Force,
Pulsallama,
Country Teasers,
Bizarre Inc.,
Shuggie Otis,
Model 500,
Thompson Twins,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Magazine,
Eve St. Jones,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sister Nancy,
David Bowie,
Marine Girls,
Mr. Review,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Doors,
Flamin' Groovies,
Q65,
Judy Mowatt,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ultra Naté,
The Standells,
Brick,
Lightning Bolt,
Talk Talk,
John Coltrane,
Freddie Wadling,
Carl Craig,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Can,
Mad Mike,
Danielle Patucci,
Groovy Waters,
Black Sheep,
Q and Not U,
Joe Smooth,
The Mojo Men,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.