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 Grenada and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Television to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Gang Gang Dance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bob Dylan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-Ray Spex,
Radiohead,
Can,
Stiv Bators,
Bluetip,
David Axelrod,
48th St. Collective,
ABC,
This Heat,
The Star Department,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Modern Lovers,
Marvin Gaye,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Leonard Cohen,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lou Christie,
Moss Icon,
Charles Mingus,
Lyres,
Monks,
Anakelly,
The Wake,
The Slackers,
Chris & Cosey,
Fluxion,
Steve Hackett,
Letta Mbulu,
The Gladiators,
Agent Orange,
Sound Behaviour,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Archie Shepp,
Gerry Rafferty,
John Lydon,
Stereo Dub,
Technova,
Massinfluence,
Barrington Levy,
Eric Dolphy,
Lou Reed,
Kurtis Blow,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Funky Four + One,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Amazonics,
Loose Ends,
Niagra,
Donny Hathaway,
The Standells,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
UT,
Glenn Branca,
The Cure,
Main Source,
Maurizio,
The Litter,
Lightning Bolt,
the Slits,
Idris Muhammad,
New York Dolls,
Wire, Wire, Wire, Wire.
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.