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 Nicaragua and from Madrid.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Bootsy Collins to the rock 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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Idris Muhammad,
Max Romeo,
Eric Dolphy,
Lee Hazlewood,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rod Modell,
Ice-T,
Nirvana,
AZ,
The Gories,
Moebius,
Anakelly,
U.S. Maple,
The Walker Brothers,
Black Bananas,
Inner City,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Cure,
The Invisible,
Kayak,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Metal Thangz,
H. Thieme,
Clear Light,
Toni Rubio,
Ralphi Rosario,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Mandrill,
The Mummies,
Roger Hodgson,
Cal Tjader,
Bad Manners,
Main Source,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Count Five,
Iggy Pop,
Sight & Sound,
Organ,
Bill Wells,
cv313,
Kenny Larkin,
Byron Stingily,
Icehouse,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Soft Machine,
The Monks,
Model 500,
The Real Kids,
Don Cherry,
Ponytail,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Skarface,
Bronski Beat,
Erasure,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Agent Orange,
The Trojans,
FM Einheit,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Ronan,
Robert Hood,
Zapp,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Cybotron, Cybotron, Cybotron, Cybotron.
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.