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 New Zealand and from Delhi.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 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 Soft Cell to the crunk 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 Freddie Wadling. All the underground hits.
All Gang Gang Dance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reuben Wilson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Motorama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobby Byrd,
The Mummies,
New York Dolls,
Jerry's Kids,
the Slits,
Roger Hodgson,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Hot Snakes,
The Searchers,
Malaria!,
Warren Ellis,
Eden Ahbez,
Easy Going,
Henry Cow,
The Motions,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Marmalade,
The Seeds,
Qualms,
T. Rex,
The Cramps,
Mo-Dettes,
The Standells,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
H. Thieme,
Bobby Sherman,
AZ,
Nico,
The Tremeloes,
MC5,
Amon Düül,
Bauhaus,
Dennis Brown,
The Modern Lovers,
Lalo Schifrin,
Alison Limerick,
Absolute Body Control,
Can,
The Dead C,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Moby Grape,
Derrick Morgan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Blackbyrds,
Stetsasonic,
Crime,
Girls At Our Best!,
Spandau Ballet,
Scott Walker,
Godley & Creme,
Joy Division,
Niagra,
Duran Duran,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Litter,
Japan,
Joyce Sims,
Cecil Taylor,
Goldenarms,
Pet Shop Boys,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.