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 Ecuador and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Au Pairs to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All Sight & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heavy D & The Boyz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Saccharine Trust,
Soft Machine,
Faraquet,
The Walker Brothers,
The Move,
Theoretical Girls,
Grauzone,
Dual Sessions,
The Count Five,
The Skatalites,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sight & Sound,
Byron Stingily,
The Young Rascals,
Barbara Tucker,
World's Most,
Jimmy McGriff,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lou Reed,
Ultra Naté,
Skarface,
The Fall,
Matthew Bourne,
Harry Pussy,
New York Dolls,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Barracudas,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ituana,
Fatback Band,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Quantec,
Aaron Thompson,
R.M.O.,
Eric B and Rakim,
Steve Hackett,
Masters at Work,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Cal Tjader,
Crispy Ambulance,
Pylon,
Cheater Slicks,
Country Teasers,
Yusef Lateef,
Gastr Del Sol,
CMW,
Kerrie Biddell,
Soulsonic Force,
Reuben Wilson,
Sonic Youth,
Mo-Dettes,
Kayak,
John Foxx,
Iggy Pop,
Nick Fraelich,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Raincoats,
The Neon Judgement,
ABC,
FM Einheit,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.