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 the UAE and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Lou Reed 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 Black Moon to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Soul Sonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Radio Birdman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Absolute Body Control,
Todd Rundgren,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lindisfarne,
Cecil Taylor,
John Cale,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Jeru the Damaja,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Donny Hathaway,
Can,
Organ,
Oneida,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Funky Four + One,
Marcia Griffiths,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
the Slits,
Erasure,
Mark Hollis,
New Age Steppers,
Pet Shop Boys,
Susan Cadogan,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Pantaleimon,
Johnny Osbourne,
Reuben Wilson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Smog,
Bluetip,
Skaos,
The Leaves,
Blake Baxter,
Camberwell Now,
KRS-One,
Eyeless In Gaza,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Niagra,
John Holt,
Spandau Ballet,
Stereo Dub,
Young Marble Giants,
Mars,
Tubeway Army,
Wings,
The Offenders,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Marmalade,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Swans,
Bill Near,
Neil Young,
Aural Exciters,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kayak,
Skarface,
The Beau Brummels,
Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders.
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.