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 Morocco and from Taipei.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 harpsichord 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 Yellowson 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 Terrestrial Tones. All the underground hits.
All Jacques Brel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Names record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kevin Saunderson,
Minutemen,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Fat Boys,
The Fire Engines,
Cameo,
The Saints,
The Grass Roots,
Dave Gahan,
Flamin' Groovies,
Marc Almond,
The Residents,
Bauhaus,
Black Sheep,
X-102,
MDC,
Youth Brigade,
The Misunderstood,
Easy Going,
Q and Not U,
Mantronix,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
New Age Steppers,
The United States of America,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Porter Ricks,
Chris Corsano,
Lightning Bolt,
Little Man,
the Bar-Kays,
Q65,
The Skatalites,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Das Ding,
The Detroit Cobras,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Bob Dylan,
The Fall,
The Last Poets,
Amon Düül II,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Average White Band,
Scratch Acid,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Toasters,
Y Pants,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Joensuu 1685,
FM Einheit,
Steve Hackett,
The Stooges,
Ponytail,
Peter & Gordon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Stereo Dub,
The Tremeloes,
Fugazi,
Wasted Youth,
Gerry Rafferty,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Durutti Column,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.