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 Dominican Republic and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 rhodes 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 Anthony Braxton to the funk 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu. All the underground hits.
All Donny Hathaway tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Light Orchestra 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Massinfluence,
David Bowie,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Thompson Twins,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Judy Mowatt,
Slave,
Amon Düül,
The Gap Band,
Excepter,
Joey Negro,
Black Sheep,
The Victims,
Joensuu 1685,
R.M.O.,
Technova,
Y Pants,
The Alarm Clocks,
Rod Modell,
David McCallum,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gastr Del Sol,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
the Human League,
Shoche,
Circle Jerks,
Section 25,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Arthur Verocai,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bizarre Inc.,
Michelle Simonal,
Eric Dolphy,
Lucky Dragons,
Main Source,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Inner City,
James Chance & The Contortions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
PIL,
CMW,
Lakeside,
The Techniques,
Radio Birdman,
Soft Cell,
Rufus Thomas,
Eddi Front,
Sugar Minott,
Dark Day,
Donny Hathaway,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kenny Larkin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Maurizio,
Carl Craig,
Mad Mike,
L. Decosne,
The Blackbyrds,
Whodini,
Lalann,
The Grass Roots,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.