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 Malaysia and from Accra.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 güiro 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 JFA to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Brick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Lebanon Hanover,
Mary Jane Girls,
June of 44,
Lyres,
Gang Green,
The Gories,
Jacob Miller,
The Saints,
Jandek,
Porter Ricks,
The Pretty Things,
Blake Baxter,
Radio Birdman,
The Red Krayola,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Yaz,
The Slits,
Brand Nubian,
Susan Cadogan,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Selecter,
Eden Ahbez,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Fatback Band,
Sällskapet,
Gil Scott Heron,
Scott Walker,
Max Romeo,
The Walker Brothers,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Chrome,
The Litter,
Cal Tjader,
Eddi Front,
Franke,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Malaria!,
Fad Gadget,
Radiohead,
Rosa Yemen,
The Golliwogs,
MC5,
Motorama,
Laurel Aitken,
Boredoms,
Sound Behaviour,
Section 25,
E-Dancer,
The Human League,
Zapp,
Al Stewart,
Pantytec,
Sandy B,
Glenn Branca,
Von Mondo,
Barclay James Harvest,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
James White and The Blacks,
Model 500,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Donny Hathaway,
Newcleus,
Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May.
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.