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 Andorra and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 güiro 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All Wasted Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Steve Hackett 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Slave,
Pantaleimon,
Kurtis Blow,
Tomorrow,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Colin Newman,
10cc,
The Kinks,
The Knickerbockers,
Donald Byrd,
Grey Daturas,
Dennis Brown,
Swans,
Reuben Wilson,
Black Bananas,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Barbara Tucker,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lyres,
The Angels of Light,
Inner City,
Flamin' Groovies,
Nico,
Agitation Free,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Circle Jerks,
Jesper Dahlback,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Laurel Aitken,
Eric B and Rakim,
Zapp,
Con Funk Shun,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pylon,
The Sound,
Deadbeat,
Grauzone,
The Last Poets,
Brand Nubian,
Magma,
Thee Headcoats,
Model 500,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Doobie Brothers,
Monolake,
Robert Görl,
These Immortal Souls,
Anakelly,
Khruangbin,
Nas,
Malaria!,
The Victims,
Theoretical Girls,
a-ha,
Silicon Teens,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
R.M.O.,
Jandek,
Swell Maps,
D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo.
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.