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 Seychelles and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 Lyon and Taipei.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Cybotron to the techno 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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All Aswad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Selector Dub Narcotic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bang On A Can,
Byron Stingily,
Bauhaus,
Siglo XX,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Schoolly D,
DJ Sneak,
Roxette,
Bronski Beat,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Erasure,
The Knickerbockers,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Derrick May,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Delon & Dalcan,
The J.B.'s,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Evens,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Stereo Dub,
The Fire Engines,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Gong,
Alphaville,
Mo-Dettes,
Hashim,
Crash Course in Science,
Gang of Four,
Young Marble Giants,
Model 500,
Letta Mbulu,
Magazine,
Ultra Naté,
The American Breed,
Chris Corsano,
The Sonics,
Negative Approach,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Average White Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Guru Guru,
Supertramp,
Stockholm Monsters,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Mandrill,
Gerry Rafferty,
Zapp,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Cosmic Jokers,
John Holt,
Animal Collective,
Fear,
Mantronix,
Radio Birdman,
JFA,
Donald Byrd,
The Shadows of Knight,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman.
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.