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 Saudi Arabia and from Milan.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Depeche Mode to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
JFA,
Sixth Finger,
Soft Machine,
The Pop Group,
Boz Scaggs,
The Mojo Men,
Amon Düül,
Joey Negro,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Tears for Fears,
Fela Kuti,
The United States of America,
the Sonics,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Gap Band,
Royal Trux,
Lalann,
the Swans,
Pharoah Sanders,
Absolute Body Control,
Liliput,
Flipper,
DJ Style,
The Moody Blues,
Smog,
This Heat,
Curtis Mayfield,
Erykah Badu,
The Mummies,
R.M.O.,
Pussy Galore,
Barclay James Harvest,
Derrick Morgan,
The Remains,
The Leaves,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Stockholm Monsters,
Vladislav Delay,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
the Germs,
Warren Ellis,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Move,
Gang Green,
Bizarre Inc.,
Neu!,
New Order,
Ronnie Foster,
Schoolly D,
Crooked Eye,
Fat Boys,
Monolake,
Procol Harum,
Cal Tjader,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Animal Collective,
Electric Prunes,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Essential Logic,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Audionom,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.