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 Czech Republic and from Philadelphia.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Mad Mike to the techno 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 Kenny Larkin. All the underground hits.
All Ajijia Myrayebe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Motorama record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Suburban Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Spoonie Gee,
E-Dancer,
Au Pairs,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Surgeon,
Agitation Free,
The Fall,
Accadde A,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Steve Hackett,
Youth Brigade,
Black Moon,
Minnie Riperton,
DNA,
Depeche Mode,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gong,
Ten City,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Kinks,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Swell Maps,
Stiv Bators,
Electric Prunes,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Tommy Roe,
Organ,
Anakelly,
World's Most,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
David McCallum,
Oblivians,
Amazonics,
Skarface,
8 Eyed Spy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bill Wells,
Q65,
Bill Near,
PIL,
Smog,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Delon & Dalcan,
Nirvana,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sonic Youth,
Zero Boys,
Marc Almond,
The Gun Club,
Dead Boys,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Leaves,
Johnny Clarke,
Jacques Brel,
Aswad,
Marvin Gaye,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.