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 San Marino and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Nico to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Black Pus. All the underground hits.
All Babytalk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Piero Umiliani record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerri Chandler,
Pierre Henry,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Star Department,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Doobie Brothers,
Flipper,
Moss Icon,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sister Nancy,
Byron Stingily,
Mission of Burma,
Barbara Tucker,
Jimmy McGriff,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Dead C,
Malaria!,
Arthur Verocai,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Fall,
Bauhaus,
The Human League,
The Kinks,
a-ha,
Eric B and Rakim,
Radiohead,
Ronan,
L. Decosne,
EPMD,
Main Source,
Eric Dolphy,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sonic Youth,
Scratch Acid,
Nico,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cameo,
Lakeside,
Tomorrow,
Chrome,
Spandau Ballet,
Fugazi,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Jerry's Kids,
Rod Modell,
The Angels of Light,
Roxette,
Slick Rick,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Throbbing Gristle,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DJ Style,
Pharoah Sanders,
Y Pants,
Warsaw,
Icehouse,
Livin' Joy,
John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx.
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.