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 Poland and from Manila.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Anakelly to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Desert Stars. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swell Maps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Bar-Kays,
Lower 48,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Doobie Brothers,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Soft Machine,
Symarip,
Lalann,
Average White Band,
The Count Five,
Camouflage,
The Techniques,
Aaron Thompson,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Soul II Soul,
Lou Reed,
Zero Boys,
Marc Almond,
Stockholm Monsters,
T.S.O.L.,
The Monochrome Set,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Eddi Front,
The Misunderstood,
Skriet,
Altered Images,
MC5,
Sexual Harrassment,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Radiohead,
Basic Channel,
Liliput,
Carl Craig,
Organ,
OOIOO,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
World's Most,
Country Teasers,
Big Daddy Kane,
Tomorrow,
Bobby Byrd,
Tears for Fears,
Leonard Cohen,
The Gap Band,
Sugar Minott,
Idris Muhammad,
Funkadelic,
Second Layer,
Bootsy Collins,
X-101,
The Pop Group,
The Music Machine,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Cymande,
ABC,
the Normal,
Malaria!,
New Age Steppers,
Eric Dolphy,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Velvet Underground,
Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade.
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.