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 Croatia and from Shanghai.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Philadelphia.
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 808 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 Essential Logic to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Move. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ten City,
Iggy Pop,
Girls At Our Best!,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Monks,
K-Klass,
Laurel Aitken,
Eurythmics,
Bootsy Collins,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Darondo,
Moss Icon,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
X-Ray Spex,
Silicon Teens,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rekid,
The Barracudas,
Big Daddy Kane,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Velvet Underground,
The Divine Comedy,
Danielle Patucci,
Vainqueur,
Sound Behaviour,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Zero Boys,
Icehouse,
Mo-Dettes,
Lalo Schifrin,
Theoretical Girls,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Glenn Branca,
Thompson Twins,
The Litter,
Andrew Hill,
Organ,
Radiohead,
Prince Buster,
Donny Hathaway,
Funky Four + One,
Soulsonic Force,
Lakeside,
In Retrospect,
EPMD,
Sexual Harrassment,
Mad Mike,
Negative Approach,
Hasil Adkins,
Q65,
The Fugs,
Rod Modell,
Eric Copeland,
Dual Sessions,
Nas,
Reuben Wilson,
Nick Fraelich,
Mark Hollis,
Cheater Slicks,
The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues.
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.