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 Namibia and from Jakarta.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 guitar 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 Crash Course in Science to the techno 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 Don Cherry. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chrome record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minnie Riperton,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kerrie Biddell,
Judy Mowatt,
The J.B.'s,
The Doors,
World's Most,
The Busters,
Funky Four + One,
Simply Red,
Kerri Chandler,
R.M.O.,
New Age Steppers,
Ronan,
Terrestrial Tones,
Oblivians,
Echospace,
Ituana,
Dead Boys,
Charles Mingus,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Amon Düül II,
Slick Rick,
Thee Headcoats,
Juan Atkins,
Moby Grape,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
ABC,
The Angels of Light,
Skriet,
Crash Course in Science,
The Cure,
The Grass Roots,
Sexual Harrassment,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Young Rascals,
Soul Sonic Force,
Heaven 17,
Wings,
Delon & Dalcan,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Toasters,
Mission of Burma,
The Monochrome Set,
cv313,
Ultravox,
Funkadelic,
Pere Ubu,
Sister Nancy,
Bizarre Inc.,
Hashim,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rapeman,
Matthew Bourne,
Harmonia,
The New Christs,
Spandau Ballet,
Minny Pops,
Metal Thangz,
The Human League,
Prince Buster,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.