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 Colombia and from Salvador.
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 Glasgow and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Con Funk Shun to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fad Gadget record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Surgeon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Sheep,
Steve Hackett,
Warsaw,
Kerrie Biddell,
Joyce Sims,
Sonny Sharrock,
Pagans,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Wake,
Traffic Nightmare,
Motorama,
The Birthday Party,
The Flesh Eaters,
Index,
The Leaves,
Underground Resistance,
Amon Düül,
The Dirtbombs,
Joe Smooth,
Jeff Lynne,
Tubeway Army,
EPMD,
Lightning Bolt,
Davy DMX,
Sun City Girls,
Pole,
David Axelrod,
Warren Ellis,
The Victims,
Boz Scaggs,
Soft Machine,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
La Düsseldorf,
The Trojans,
Robert Hood,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Fatback Band,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Chrome,
OOIOO,
Little Man,
The Slits,
Drexciya,
Barry Ungar,
Scott Walker,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Martian,
Mary Jane Girls,
Roger Hodgson,
the Slits,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Fortunes,
Grey Daturas,
Fad Gadget,
Leonard Cohen,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pantaleimon,
The Blues Magoos,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.