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 Iran and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 sitar 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 Scion to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Oblivians. All the underground hits.
All X-Ray Spex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantaleimon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Danielle Patucci record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Liliput,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bronski Beat,
Albert Ayler,
JFA,
Main Source,
Agitation Free,
Make Up,
Sällskapet,
Susan Cadogan,
Vladislav Delay,
The Cowsills,
PIL,
Q and Not U,
Gerry Rafferty,
Eve St. Jones,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Cymande,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Motorama,
The Stooges,
Jimmy McGriff,
Gichy Dan,
Althea and Donna,
Brick,
The Cure,
Quadrant,
The Index,
Masters at Work,
The Monochrome Set,
Public Enemy,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Todd Rundgren,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Ultra Naté,
Black Flag,
Lou Christie,
Infiniti,
Eli Mardock,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Cybotron,
Stiv Bators,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Model 500,
Nils Olav,
The Young Rascals,
Chrome,
Lou Reed,
Interpol,
The Shadows of Knight,
David McCallum,
Juan Atkins,
The Gories,
Sexual Harrassment,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Tommy Roe,
Technova,
Negative Approach,
Index, Index, Index, Index.
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.