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 Spain and from Manchester.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Roy Ayers to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All Thee Headcoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pole 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 an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Bananas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moby Grape,
Moebius,
H. Thieme,
Brothers Johnson,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Doors,
U.S. Maple,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Echospace,
Gang of Four,
Minutemen,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Leonard Cohen,
Althea and Donna,
Faust,
John Foxx,
kango's stein massive,
The Star Department,
Al Stewart,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eric Dolphy,
Sam Rivers,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Archie Shepp,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ornette Coleman,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Gun Club,
Scan 7,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Howard Jones,
Pharoah Sanders,
Easy Going,
Y Pants,
Mars,
Steve Hackett,
Wire,
Danielle Patucci,
Stereo Dub,
Cal Tjader,
The Evens,
Sex Pistols,
10cc,
Juan Atkins,
Negative Approach,
The Five Americans,
Agitation Free,
Brass Construction,
ABC,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Modern Lovers,
Inner City,
Massinfluence,
Cheater Slicks,
Brick,
Maleditus Sound,
Marvin Gaye,
Basic Channel,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.