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 Slovenia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Grass Roots 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 Gabor Szabo. All the underground hits.
All Half Japanese tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ajijia Myrayebe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb 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 theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Byron Stingily,
Althea and Donna,
Glenn Branca,
Unrelated Segments,
The Fire Engines,
Ken Boothe,
ABBA,
Marc Almond,
Wally Richardson,
MC5,
Parry Music,
Fatback Band,
The Trojans,
Bill Wells,
Moebius,
Erykah Badu,
The Mojo Men,
Tommy Roe,
John Foxx,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Kaleidoscope,
Neu!,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kayak,
Fear,
Sun City Girls,
The Smiths,
The Walker Brothers,
Arab on Radar,
Derrick Morgan,
The J.B.'s,
Alton Ellis,
Q65,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Count Five,
X-101,
Shuggie Otis,
Deepchord,
Soul II Soul,
Eden Ahbez,
The Human League,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ultimate Spinach,
Tomorrow,
Aswad,
Todd Terry,
The Martian,
Marshall Jefferson,
Beasts of Bourbon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Toni Rubio,
Freddie Wadling,
The Offenders,
The Five Americans,
Soft Cell,
The Misunderstood,
Bluetip,
The Selecter,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Cheater Slicks,
Barrington Levy,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.