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 Chile and from Salvador.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 synthesizer 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 June Days to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Music Machine 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Red Krayola record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moby Grape,
Niagra,
Aaron Thompson,
Average White Band,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Faust,
Peter & Gordon,
Ultimate Spinach,
Angry Samoans,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sonny Sharrock,
Nation of Ulysses,
Absolute Body Control,
Mantronix,
Danielle Patucci,
Scrapy,
Bootsy Collins,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sound Behaviour,
Dawn Penn,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Monochrome Set,
Prince Buster,
Eric Dolphy,
The Motions,
Grauzone,
MDC,
Cheater Slicks,
Siglo XX,
Cal Tjader,
Das Ding,
Kenny Larkin,
Crispian St. Peters,
Depeche Mode,
Joe Smooth,
Reagan Youth,
Crime,
The Sonics,
Kayak,
the Soft Cell,
The Young Rascals,
K-Klass,
Amazonics,
Black Moon,
John Lydon,
Crash Course in Science,
Tim Buckley,
Babytalk,
Slave,
Pet Shop Boys,
Skaos,
Aural Exciters,
Fear,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Davy DMX,
The Real Kids,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Tomorrow,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.