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 Kenya and from Edmonton.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 AZ to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Peter and Kerry. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Lynne 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mighty Diamonds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick May,
Clear Light,
Scion,
The Techniques,
Sister Nancy,
The Motions,
Jesper Dahlback,
LL Cool J,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sonic Youth,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Crispian St. Peters,
Slave,
Roxy Music,
Public Enemy,
Ohio Players,
Outsiders,
The Stooges,
the Bar-Kays,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rites of Spring,
The Music Machine,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Television Personalities,
Ken Boothe,
The Associates,
Tropical Tobacco,
Dennis Brown,
The Star Department,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Cecil Taylor,
Marshall Jefferson,
Iggy Pop,
Ossler,
China Crisis,
Das Ding,
The Gories,
Roy Ayers,
In Retrospect,
Make Up,
Q and Not U,
Freddie Wadling,
Infiniti,
Sound Behaviour,
Kurtis Blow,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Porter Ricks,
Hardrive,
Cameo,
Surgeon,
Soft Machine,
Country Teasers,
X-Ray Spex,
Joyce Sims,
Average White Band,
Brick,
Fela Kuti,
CMW,
Howard Jones,
JFA,
ABBA, ABBA, ABBA, ABBA.
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.