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 Saudi Arabia and from Bologna.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Jawbox to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Reagan Youth. All the underground hits.
All Davy DMX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
Guru Guru,
Jimmy McGriff,
Roxy Music,
K-Klass,
The Busters,
The Knickerbockers,
Yellowson,
Blake Baxter,
Barbara Tucker,
Chrome,
Sällskapet,
Eddi Front,
Boogie Down Productions,
Royal Trux,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ultravox,
DJ Sneak,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Robert Wyatt,
The Standells,
D'Angelo,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
the Germs,
Aswad,
Cheater Slicks,
Skarface,
Matthew Halsall,
Kas Product,
Technova,
Delon & Dalcan,
Country Teasers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Black Dice,
Suicide,
Radio Birdman,
Juan Atkins,
Gastr Del Sol,
Wolf Eyes,
Theoretical Girls,
The Cure,
Unwound,
X-102,
Metal Thangz,
the Normal,
David Bowie,
Accadde A,
Spandau Ballet,
Popol Vuh,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Five Americans,
Pet Shop Boys,
Shoche,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Junior Murvin,
Echospace,
Au Pairs,
The Victims,
Yusef Lateef,
Kevin Saunderson,
Susan Cadogan,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.