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 Greece and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 Delhi and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 snare 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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell to the grime 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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All John Foxx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blackbyrds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
L. Decosne,
Monks,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Heaven 17,
The Pretty Things,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gong,
The Last Poets,
Wolf Eyes,
Ossler,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Cluster,
Banda Bassotti,
Gang Starr,
Davy DMX,
Spandau Ballet,
Scott Walker,
The Gap Band,
Max Romeo,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Tomorrow,
Zero Boys,
Skarface,
Derrick May,
Zapp,
Amon Düül II,
Franke,
EPMD,
Cymande,
Tom Boy,
Supertramp,
Groovy Waters,
Barbara Tucker,
Marine Girls,
Minutemen,
Warsaw,
The Victims,
Jerry's Kids,
The Neon Judgement,
The Raincoats,
CMW,
Girls At Our Best!,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Danielle Patucci,
Funkadelic,
Q and Not U,
Scion,
Sandy B,
Quantec,
The Slackers,
JFA,
Drive Like Jehu,
June Days,
The Blackbyrds,
Peter & Gordon,
Excepter,
Vladislav Delay,
Darondo,
Sixth Finger,
Make Up,
The Gun Club,
Albert Ayler,
Dead Boys,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.