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 India and from Calgary.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 marimba 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 The Cosmic Jokers to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Eli Mardock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fad Gadget 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Barracudas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Crash Course in Science,
Todd Terry,
Lucky Dragons,
Lakeside,
Radio Birdman,
Colin Newman,
Sister Nancy,
Eric Dolphy,
The Zeros,
Swans,
Morten Harket,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sex Pistols,
Average White Band,
Section 25,
Kenny Larkin,
Chris & Cosey,
Youth Brigade,
Wire,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Jandek,
Motorama,
This Heat,
Thompson Twins,
Johnny Clarke,
Danielle Patucci,
Joey Negro,
Lee Hazlewood,
Peter & Gordon,
Quadrant,
Gang Green,
X-Ray Spex,
Audionom,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Fear,
Adolescents,
Sound Behaviour,
Crooked Eye,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Aaron Thompson,
The Red Krayola,
the Association,
KRS-One,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Oneida,
Althea and Donna,
The Neon Judgement,
John Coltrane,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Gichy Dan,
ABBA,
The Invisible,
Dual Sessions,
The Smoke,
Nirvana,
Maleditus Sound,
Brand Nubian,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Flipper,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.