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 Chile and from Glasgow.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Grass Roots to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 David Bowie. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Freddie Wadling 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Derrick Morgan,
Gang Starr,
Warren Ellis,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Blues Magoos,
Ultravox,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Harmonia,
Outsiders,
New York Dolls,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Neu!,
Yellowson,
The Young Rascals,
Radiohead,
Circle Jerks,
Vladislav Delay,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
David Axelrod,
Lindisfarne,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
the Fania All-Stars,
Young Marble Giants,
Howard Jones,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Count Five,
Sugar Minott,
Amon Düül II,
Pantytec,
Camouflage,
Michelle Simonal,
Eddi Front,
Suicide,
Ludus,
Yusef Lateef,
Underground Resistance,
Pere Ubu,
John Holt,
Gong,
Unrelated Segments,
Ohio Players,
Erykah Badu,
Faraquet,
Severed Heads,
Banda Bassotti,
Andrew Hill,
Guru Guru,
ABC,
Tres Demented,
Basic Channel,
Lower 48,
David McCallum,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nick Fraelich,
Stetsasonic,
Brothers Johnson,
Rites of Spring,
Roxy Music,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Agent Orange,
World's Most,
The Walker Brothers,
Leonard Cohen,
Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens.
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.