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 Tanzania and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Procol Harum to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gian Franco Pienzio. All the underground hits.
All Fela Kuti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos 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 a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spoonie Gee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Derrick May,
D'Angelo,
Boredoms,
Robert Görl,
The New Christs,
MC5,
Desert Stars,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bluetip,
Joyce Sims,
Delta 5,
The Associates,
Cybotron,
Terrestrial Tones,
Mantronix,
Gong,
Reagan Youth,
Minny Pops,
Alton Ellis,
Swans,
The Slackers,
Joe Finger,
Quadrant,
Chris Corsano,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Radiopuhelimet,
Anakelly,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sound Behaviour,
Eve St. Jones,
Absolute Body Control,
Sun Ra,
Jimmy McGriff,
Rosa Yemen,
One Last Wish,
Mad Mike,
Eric Copeland,
Blossom Toes,
Agitation Free,
Nas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang of Four,
Archie Shepp,
Liliput,
Visage,
China Crisis,
Intrusion,
Bill Near,
The Electric Prunes,
Iggy Pop,
Marine Girls,
Bootsy Collins,
Icehouse,
Idris Muhammad,
Brand Nubian,
Lalo Schifrin,
Masters at Work,
Toni Rubio,
Skaos,
Brick,
Ituana, Ituana, Ituana, Ituana.
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.