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 Chad and from Stockholm.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 organ 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 The Music Machine to the grime 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 Brand Nubian. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mummies,
John Holt,
Goldenarms,
Y Pants,
Neu!,
The Gladiators,
The Names,
Kool Moe Dee,
Isaac Hayes,
Delta 5,
Oneida,
Donald Byrd,
The Pretty Things,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Basic Channel,
Model 500,
The Smiths,
Matthew Bourne,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Los Fastidios,
Janne Schatter,
Jesper Dahlback,
Erasure,
Public Enemy,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Reuben Wilson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Black Dice,
the Human League,
The Monochrome Set,
Livin' Joy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Gastr Del Sol,
Wolf Eyes,
Cluster,
Tears for Fears,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Circle Jerks,
Silicon Teens,
Cecil Taylor,
Slave,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Roxy Music,
Heaven 17,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Rosa Yemen,
Moebius,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Bobby Womack,
Quantec,
Mantronix,
Andrew Hill,
Audionom,
The Pop Group,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bang On A Can,
The Fall,
Big Daddy Kane,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds.
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.