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 Uzbekistan and from Copenhagen.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Be Bop Deluxe to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All The Residents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Josef K,
Country Teasers,
Mary Jane Girls,
Stetsasonic,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Dual Sessions,
Michelle Simonal,
B.T. Express,
Stiv Bators,
Zapp,
Byron Stingily,
Derrick May,
Wolf Eyes,
Amon Düül,
The Seeds,
The Barracudas,
Albert Ayler,
The Trojans,
The Evens,
Man Parrish,
Bad Manners,
Radiohead,
Freddie Wadling,
Avey Tare,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Iggy Pop,
John Cale,
Swans,
The Wake,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Barbara Tucker,
Hardrive,
Marine Girls,
Radio Birdman,
Nik Kershaw,
The Vogues,
Andrew Hill,
Joy Division,
Wasted Youth,
Sarah Menescal,
Anakelly,
David Bowie,
The Residents,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Eve St. Jones,
Young Marble Giants,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Althea and Donna,
The Victims,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
ABBA,
Joyce Sims,
Rufus Thomas,
The Mummies,
Bizarre Inc.,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Supertramp,
X-Ray Spex,
Lebanon Hanover,
Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins.
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.