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 Sao Paulo.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Chocolate Watch Band to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ponytail,
The Smoke,
Fear,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pantaleimon,
Lalann,
Black Pus,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Unwound,
Jandek,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Loose Ends,
Lower 48,
Lou Christie,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Alarm Clocks,
Stetsasonic,
Tubeway Army,
Max Romeo,
Can,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lightning Bolt,
Deadbeat,
Soulsonic Force,
The Gladiators,
The Cowsills,
Lindisfarne,
Young Marble Giants,
Sällskapet,
Harry Pussy,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
MDC,
Wasted Youth,
Cecil Taylor,
Kas Product,
Derrick May,
Mark Hollis,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Jeff Lynne,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
K-Klass,
Donny Hathaway,
Rosa Yemen,
The Golliwogs,
Albert Ayler,
John Foxx,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Easy Going,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Amon Düül II,
Terrestrial Tones,
Organ,
Metal Thangz,
Yusef Lateef,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Au Pairs,
Letta Mbulu,
Icehouse,
Archie Shepp,
Jimmy McGriff,
Monolake,
Crispian St. Peters,
Danielle Patucci,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.