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 Morocco and from Lyon.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Lou Reed 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 Hashim to the funk 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 a-ha. All the underground hits.
All Ituana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Angels of Light 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-Ray Spex record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boredoms,
Zero Boys,
Monolake,
Rod Modell,
Gang of Four,
The Red Krayola,
Eve St. Jones,
Electric Prunes,
The Sonics,
Accadde A,
The Pretty Things,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Groovy Waters,
The Black Dice,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Boz Scaggs,
Siglo XX,
Brick,
Stetsasonic,
The Blues Magoos,
The Motions,
James White and The Blacks,
the Soft Cell,
Lebanon Hanover,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Monochrome Set,
Eden Ahbez,
Bush Tetras,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Henry Cow,
Franke,
Deadbeat,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Subhumans,
Moss Icon,
Zapp,
Oblivians,
The New Christs,
Circle Jerks,
China Crisis,
Harpers Bizarre,
Reuben Wilson,
Radio Birdman,
The Last Poets,
R.M.O.,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Angry Samoans,
Joe Finger,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sugar Minott,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
ABC,
Byron Stingily,
Supertramp,
The Count Five,
Anthony Braxton,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Roxy Music,
Yaz, Yaz, Yaz, Yaz.
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.