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 Iceland and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Rekid to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All Little Man tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moby Grape 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sunsets and Hearts,
Joy Division,
Massinfluence,
Lou Reed,
Arcadia,
Camberwell Now,
Public Enemy,
Fluxion,
Public Image Ltd.,
Arab on Radar,
Lakeside,
Alice Coltrane,
Surgeon,
The Slackers,
Sight & Sound,
Black Sheep,
Johnny Clarke,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Main Source,
Althea and Donna,
Dawn Penn,
The Residents,
The Vogues,
Livin' Joy,
Sandy B,
Tears for Fears,
Alison Limerick,
Make Up,
Silicon Teens,
The Fugs,
Average White Band,
Ten City,
Bobby Sherman,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Eurythmics,
Jerry's Kids,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Harpers Bizarre,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Grass Roots,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gichy Dan,
Man Parrish,
Colin Newman,
Don Cherry,
Eric Dolphy,
Pet Shop Boys,
Kayak,
Symarip,
Loose Ends,
The Human League,
The Seeds,
Terrestrial Tones,
Banda Bassotti,
Sparks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Anakelly,
Drexciya,
Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix.
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.