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 Solomon Islands and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Negative Approach to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Mo-Dettes. All the underground hits.
All The Invisible tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Absolute Body Control record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Arcadia,
The Evens,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
R.M.O.,
Livin' Joy,
Tim Buckley,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
New Age Steppers,
Roxette,
Lightning Bolt,
Los Fastidios,
The Residents,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Electric Prunes,
D'Angelo,
Jandek,
Minutemen,
Alton Ellis,
Lebanon Hanover,
Slick Rick,
Rotary Connection,
Tears for Fears,
Kurtis Blow,
The Leaves,
Erasure,
June Days,
John Foxx,
Neil Young,
Altered Images,
Dead Boys,
Pantytec,
Parry Music,
La Düsseldorf,
Roy Ayers,
the Soft Cell,
Ultra Naté,
Prince Buster,
Gang Green,
Joy Division,
Oneida,
Eric B and Rakim,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Johnny Osbourne,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Babytalk,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Fortunes,
Basic Channel,
One Last Wish,
UT,
Lou Christie,
Eli Mardock,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Smog, Smog, Smog, Smog.
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.