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 Guyana and from Lagos.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 the Human League to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Aloha Tigers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Neon Judgement 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Man Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Pere Ubu,
Quadrant,
Roxy Music,
Scrapy,
Buzzcocks,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Lightning Bolt,
Ituana,
Minny Pops,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bobby Womack,
The Gap Band,
Dual Sessions,
Half Japanese,
Surgeon,
Bizarre Inc.,
Tres Demented,
Television,
Kas Product,
Hot Snakes,
Rotary Connection,
Basic Channel,
Minnie Riperton,
The Gun Club,
Isaac Hayes,
Gabor Szabo,
UT,
OOIOO,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
PIL,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ultravox,
Lebanon Hanover,
Smog,
Ronan,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
John Coltrane,
Soul II Soul,
Guru Guru,
Agitation Free,
the Slits,
The Young Rascals,
Grey Daturas,
China Crisis,
Joensuu 1685,
The Walker Brothers,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sonic Youth,
Delta 5,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Searchers,
Stereo Dub,
Ultra Naté,
Motorama,
Leonard Cohen,
The Misunderstood,
DNA,
The Remains,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks.
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.