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 Cambodia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Pierre Henry to the funk 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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All Brick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Godley & Creme,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Half Japanese,
The Golliwogs,
E-Dancer,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sound Behaviour,
Thompson Twins,
Glambeats Corp.,
Tom Boy,
the Bar-Kays,
Spoonie Gee,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
kango's stein massive,
Laurel Aitken,
Amon Düül II,
Ten City,
CMW,
Schoolly D,
Roxette,
Country Teasers,
Joe Smooth,
Kool Moe Dee,
Morten Harket,
Con Funk Shun,
The Slits,
Radiopuhelimet,
Eric Copeland,
The Grass Roots,
Alphaville,
The Modern Lovers,
PIL,
The Divine Comedy,
Warsaw,
the Normal,
Depeche Mode,
Smog,
Oneida,
In Retrospect,
Adolescents,
Livin' Joy,
Bang On A Can,
OOIOO,
EPMD,
The Smoke,
Subhumans,
Aural Exciters,
Gong,
Essential Logic,
Cybotron,
Deakin,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
X-102,
Darondo,
The Skatalites,
The Motions, The Motions, The Motions, The Motions.
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.