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 Croatia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Taipei.
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 mellotron 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 Strawberry Alarm Clock to the electroclash 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 The Gun Club. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlbäck record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Gregory Isaacs,
the Bar-Kays,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Sound,
Camberwell Now,
Lungfish,
The Fugs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Morten Harket,
New Age Steppers,
Glenn Branca,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Chris Corsano,
Josef K,
Bizarre Inc.,
Mo-Dettes,
Ultra Naté,
X-102,
La Düsseldorf,
Kenny Larkin,
Flipper,
Symarip,
Sexual Harrassment,
kango's stein massive,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Skriet,
The Saints,
Theoretical Girls,
Mary Jane Girls,
Au Pairs,
Kaleidoscope,
Spoonie Gee,
Minny Pops,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Neon Judgement,
Erasure,
Zero Boys,
Moby Grape,
Public Enemy,
the Sonics,
Rotary Connection,
Al Stewart,
The Leaves,
The Misunderstood,
Arcadia,
Tears for Fears,
Donald Byrd,
Ken Boothe,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ponytail,
48th St. Collective,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Rakim,
Tommy Roe,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Moleskins,
Eddi Front,
Interpol,
DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style.
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.