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 Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 snare 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 The Litter to the dance 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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every K-Klass 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
The Electric Prunes,
Chrome,
Godley & Creme,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Fela Kuti,
Average White Band,
Ossler,
Tommy Roe,
Pulsallama,
Scientists,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Agent Orange,
Sexual Harrassment,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Hasil Adkins,
The Moleskins,
The Dave Clark Five,
Von Mondo,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Duran Duran,
Fat Boys,
Amon Düül II,
Television,
Marvin Gaye,
The Selecter,
Mantronix,
Davy DMX,
Quando Quango,
Franke,
Jandek,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Siglo XX,
Harmonia,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Mars,
Supertramp,
Prince Buster,
Man Parrish,
Warsaw,
Quadrant,
Buzzcocks,
Stetsasonic,
Livin' Joy,
DNA,
JFA,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Monks,
Matthew Halsall,
Arcadia,
James White and The Blacks,
Throbbing Gristle,
Technova,
Hardrive,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Visage,
Fluxion,
Inner City,
Trumans Water,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.