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 Romania and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Human League to the funk 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 Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Con Funk Shun tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Alice Coltrane,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Gories,
John Foxx,
Judy Mowatt,
Grauzone,
Babytalk,
Tommy Roe,
New Age Steppers,
Black Bananas,
Eurythmics,
Magma,
The Knickerbockers,
The Raincoats,
Faust,
Half Japanese,
Bang On A Can,
Groovy Waters,
World's Most,
X-101,
Robert Wyatt,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
L. Decosne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pylon,
Nils Olav,
Anthony Braxton,
Colin Newman,
London Community Gospel Choir,
New Order,
Pet Shop Boys,
Pagans,
Second Layer,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bobby Byrd,
The Gun Club,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Last Poets,
Kaleidoscope,
Lindisfarne,
Patti Smith,
The Standells,
Brass Construction,
Simply Red,
Faraquet,
La Düsseldorf,
Sparks,
Guru Guru,
Cybotron,
Black Sheep,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Monks,
The Gap Band,
Ultra Naté,
Danielle Patucci,
X-Ray Spex,
Loose Ends,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.