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 Madagascar and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 marimba 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 Oblivians to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Robert Hood. All the underground hits.
All Scion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Move record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Ice-T,
F. McDonald,
Amon Düül II,
Quantec,
B.T. Express,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Smoke,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Danielle Patucci,
Wasted Youth,
La Düsseldorf,
Marvin Gaye,
Grey Daturas,
Soul II Soul,
Roxy Music,
Maleditus Sound,
Pet Shop Boys,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
K-Klass,
Kaleidoscope,
Tears for Fears,
Rotary Connection,
Yusef Lateef,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Joe Smooth,
Japan,
The United States of America,
DNA,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ultimate Spinach,
Darondo,
Derrick Morgan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dual Sessions,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Pole,
L. Decosne,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Morten Harket,
Con Funk Shun,
Black Bananas,
The Neon Judgement,
The Stooges,
Loose Ends,
Piero Umiliani,
Brick,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Niagra,
Funky Four + One,
The Detroit Cobras,
Big Daddy Kane,
Absolute Body Control,
Duran Duran,
Robert Hood,
Organ,
Davy DMX,
Faraquet,
This Heat, This Heat, This Heat, This Heat.
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.