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 Paraguay and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 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 Golliwogs to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masters at Work record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Moebius,
Fad Gadget,
Kool Moe Dee,
Zero Boys,
Robert Wyatt,
Barbara Tucker,
Fat Boys,
Groovy Waters,
Tubeway Army,
Panda Bear,
Flamin' Groovies,
UT,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Dorothy Ashby,
Iggy Pop,
The Black Dice,
Charles Mingus,
Barrington Levy,
The Trojans,
Marine Girls,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Knickerbockers,
Fela Kuti,
10cc,
Leonard Cohen,
Infiniti,
Visage,
Black Sheep,
Mo-Dettes,
Pharoah Sanders,
Gastr Del Sol,
Young Marble Giants,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Raincoats,
The Gories,
One Last Wish,
The Star Department,
Ralphi Rosario,
the Soft Cell,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
kango's stein massive,
Rakim,
Wings,
cv313,
Stetsasonic,
The Gladiators,
The Evens,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Dave Gahan,
Camberwell Now,
Alice Coltrane,
Model 500,
The Slackers,
Crooked Eye,
Roxette,
MC5,
Cal Tjader,
Amon Düül II,
Echospace,
Bill Wells,
Curtis Mayfield,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.