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 France and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Thompson Twins to the electroclash 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. All the underground hits.
All Ronnie Foster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
Bill Near,
Bobby Hutcherson,
X-102,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Drexciya,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Television Personalities,
The Detroit Cobras,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Zapp,
New Order,
The Wake,
Cameo,
Qualms,
Girls At Our Best!,
Minnie Riperton,
The Knickerbockers,
Janne Schatter,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Agent Orange,
Kaleidoscope,
the Sonics,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jerry's Kids,
Theoretical Girls,
New Age Steppers,
Grandmaster Flash,
10cc,
Dave Gahan,
The Invisible,
Outsiders,
Sun Ra,
H. Thieme,
Alice Coltrane,
The Saints,
Tres Demented,
Organ,
Public Enemy,
The Mojo Men,
The Offenders,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Q and Not U,
The Zeros,
The Monks,
Andrew Hill,
Mandrill,
Todd Terry,
Anakelly,
Circle Jerks,
Faust,
Marvin Gaye,
Althea and Donna,
Howard Jones,
Eurythmics,
Massinfluence,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Pulsallama,
Quando Quango,
Mars,
The Happenings,
Mad Mike,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.