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 Cambodia and from Winnipeg.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Von Mondo to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Offenders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pylon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Golliwogs,
The Monochrome Set,
Fluxion,
Dave Gahan,
T.S.O.L.,
Absolute Body Control,
Zapp,
Organ,
Faust,
The Cowsills,
Pantytec,
Banda Bassotti,
Surgeon,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Nas,
Minutemen,
Essential Logic,
Lebanon Hanover,
the Slits,
Fad Gadget,
Yaz,
kango's stein massive,
Warren Ellis,
The Count Five,
Danielle Patucci,
Massinfluence,
Johnny Osbourne,
New Order,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Divine Comedy,
The Move,
Desert Stars,
Kurtis Blow,
Erasure,
Darondo,
Tomorrow,
Flamin' Groovies,
Saccharine Trust,
KRS-One,
Mo-Dettes,
Eddi Front,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Half Japanese,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
X-Ray Spex,
Dark Day,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Victims,
Chrome,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Quantec,
Gichy Dan,
Wire,
Smog,
Ultimate Spinach,
Joyce Sims,
Kaleidoscope,
The Blues Magoos,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Echospace, Echospace, Echospace, Echospace.
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.