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 Yemen and from London.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sarah Menescal to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barclay James Harvest record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
New Order,
In Retrospect,
Warsaw,
Bill Wells,
Funkadelic,
Gang Starr,
Con Funk Shun,
Barclay James Harvest,
8 Eyed Spy,
Severed Heads,
The Count Five,
The Moleskins,
Loose Ends,
Schoolly D,
These Immortal Souls,
T. Rex,
Y Pants,
Popol Vuh,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
China Crisis,
Reuben Wilson,
Jeff Mills,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
cv313,
Pharoah Sanders,
Groovy Waters,
Thompson Twins,
Junior Murvin,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Laurel Aitken,
Camouflage,
Thee Headcoats,
Easy Going,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Jandek,
Cecil Taylor,
The Leaves,
Eric B and Rakim,
Derrick Morgan,
Aural Exciters,
The Golliwogs,
the Normal,
Ten City,
DNA,
Surgeon,
Shoche,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Steve Hackett,
The Mummies,
Stereo Dub,
The Human League,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Mantronix,
Dark Day,
Sexual Harrassment,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Don Cherry,
DJ Style,
One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.
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.