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 Israel and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 guitar 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 Rotary Connection to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unrelated Segments record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Golliwogs,
The Seeds,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lalann,
Little Man,
Amazonics,
Dave Gahan,
World's Most,
Kaleidoscope,
Nirvana,
Second Layer,
David Bowie,
Scientists,
Make Up,
Arab on Radar,
Niagra,
Basic Channel,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Marmalade,
Brand Nubian,
8 Eyed Spy,
Cluster,
The Gap Band,
Silicon Teens,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Fela Kuti,
Crispy Ambulance,
DJ Sneak,
Chris & Cosey,
Negative Approach,
Grey Daturas,
Boredoms,
Funkadelic,
Black Sheep,
The Buckinghams,
Jandek,
Albert Ayler,
Depeche Mode,
The Names,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Jeff Mills,
Delta 5,
EPMD,
Zero Boys,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
These Immortal Souls,
The Cure,
Cybotron,
Ornette Coleman,
Lyres,
The Angels of Light,
Chris Corsano,
Sonic Youth,
Charles Mingus,
Section 25,
The Dead C,
Al Stewart,
Hashim,
L. Decosne,
The Fugs,
Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon.
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.