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 Malta and from Paris.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and New York.
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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Negative Approach to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Morten Harket,
R.M.O.,
Smog,
Alison Limerick,
Excepter,
The Star Department,
Scientists,
Massinfluence,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Theoretical Girls,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Livin' Joy,
The Grass Roots,
Toni Rubio,
Aaron Thompson,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
New Age Steppers,
Fear,
Godley & Creme,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Dawn Penn,
Clear Light,
Pere Ubu,
Animal Collective,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Velvet Underground,
Derrick Morgan,
Dorothy Ashby,
Babytalk,
Pantytec,
The Leaves,
Rekid,
The Blues Magoos,
D'Angelo,
Jeff Mills,
Aloha Tigers,
Cecil Taylor,
Sexual Harrassment,
Infiniti,
The Moody Blues,
the Soft Cell,
the Sonics,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Icehouse,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
ABC,
Wire,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Names,
Reagan Youth,
A Certain Ratio,
The Walker Brothers,
Kayak,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ponytail,
Glenn Branca,
Leonard Cohen,
Colin Newman,
The Beau Brummels,
Moss Icon,
Section 25,
Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus.
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.