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 Thailand 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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Seoul.
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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Donald Byrd to the grunge 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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arab on Radar record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Dawn Penn,
ABC,
The Leaves,
The Monks,
Black Moon,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Juan Atkins,
The Happenings,
Animal Collective,
World's Most,
Ultra Naté,
The Techniques,
the Slits,
Al Stewart,
The Beau Brummels,
Todd Rundgren,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Dual Sessions,
Crime,
Nation of Ulysses,
Little Man,
Sam Rivers,
the Human League,
Television Personalities,
Connie Case,
DJ Sneak,
Circle Jerks,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Suicide,
Bizarre Inc.,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Arcadia,
New Age Steppers,
Tim Buckley,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Monks,
Aloha Tigers,
The Neon Judgement,
Joe Finger,
Pantytec,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Make Up,
The Remains,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sun City Girls,
Girls At Our Best!,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pierre Henry,
Bluetip,
Roxette,
Barrington Levy,
Prince Buster,
The Tremeloes,
Pantaleimon,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Trojans,
Janne Schatter,
Henry Cow,
Loose Ends,
The Cure, The Cure, The Cure, The Cure.
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.