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 Gabon and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Delon & Dalcan to the rock 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 a-ha. All the underground hits.
All June Days tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Wyatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Magma,
Joensuu 1685,
The Count Five,
the Sonics,
The American Breed,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Guru Guru,
Neu!,
The Stooges,
Marine Girls,
Hot Snakes,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Aaron Thompson,
Roxy Music,
Tres Demented,
The Standells,
Dave Gahan,
Prince Buster,
Rotary Connection,
Surgeon,
Jacob Miller,
Ultravox,
Terry Callier,
Ronan,
Eden Ahbez,
MDC,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Echospace,
Zapp,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Soulsonic Force,
Blake Baxter,
David McCallum,
Wire,
Minny Pops,
Pussy Galore,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Cameo,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Erykah Badu,
Tomorrow,
Interpol,
LL Cool J,
The Litter,
EPMD,
Pylon,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Crime,
Mandrill,
Black Flag,
Chris & Cosey,
Jeff Mills,
Brothers Johnson,
Cluster,
8 Eyed Spy,
Oblivians,
Section 25,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.