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 Tonga and from Bologna.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Interpol to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All The New Christs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Iggy Pop record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rosa Yemen,
Peter & Gordon,
Juan Atkins,
Albert Ayler,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Youth Brigade,
Sexual Harrassment,
Jesper Dahlback,
Derrick May,
Kevin Saunderson,
John Cale,
Patti Smith,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
the Slits,
Dennis Brown,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Quadrant,
Jeff Mills,
Peter and Kerry,
Al Stewart,
Matthew Halsall,
Robert Wyatt,
The Residents,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Neu!,
Tropical Tobacco,
Index,
Absolute Body Control,
Jacob Miller,
The Busters,
Quantec,
Avey Tare,
a-ha,
Hashim,
Pylon,
Intrusion,
Drive Like Jehu,
Suicide,
H. Thieme,
Sonic Youth,
X-102,
Japan,
Massinfluence,
Scan 7,
Ohio Players,
Black Pus,
Steve Hackett,
World's Most,
Heaven 17,
Drexciya,
This Heat,
Scratch Acid,
John Coltrane,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Saints,
The Leaves,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
ABC,
Theoretical Girls,
The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things.
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.