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 South Africa and from Seoul.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 spring reverb 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All Larry & the Blue Notes 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 electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Camberwell Now,
The Techniques,
Byron Stingily,
New York Dolls,
Model 500,
DJ Sneak,
Country Joe & The Fish,
PIL,
Cabaret Voltaire,
F. McDonald,
Gichy Dan,
Bronski Beat,
Television Personalities,
Wasted Youth,
Dead Boys,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jawbox,
8 Eyed Spy,
Section 25,
The Mummies,
The Associates,
Janne Schatter,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Gang Green,
Cymande,
Eurythmics,
Juan Atkins,
Crispian St. Peters,
Kool Moe Dee,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Adolescents,
ABC,
Derrick Morgan,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
B.T. Express,
Jerry's Kids,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Easy Going,
48th St. Collective,
Mo-Dettes,
Dorothy Ashby,
Massinfluence,
Panda Bear,
Charles Mingus,
Sound Behaviour,
Banda Bassotti,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Aural Exciters,
Sarah Menescal,
Niagra,
Pharoah Sanders,
Tomorrow,
Parry Music,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.