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 Sweden and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Infiniti to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a LL Cool J record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ohio Players,
Minutemen,
Ituana,
Hoover,
Qualms,
Flamin' Groovies,
Dennis Brown,
The Gun Club,
Skaos,
F. McDonald,
Agitation Free,
Deakin,
H. Thieme,
The Motions,
The Fugs,
Sight & Sound,
Swans,
New Order,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Delta 5,
Soulsonic Force,
Barbara Tucker,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Monks,
The Cramps,
The Moleskins,
T.S.O.L.,
Bizarre Inc.,
Arab on Radar,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Make Up,
the Association,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Todd Rundgren,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Second Layer,
Cecil Taylor,
Joensuu 1685,
Donny Hathaway,
Darondo,
The Electric Prunes,
Severed Heads,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Birthday Party,
Roxy Music,
One Last Wish,
June of 44,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Maleditus Sound,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jeff Lynne,
Slave,
Tears for Fears,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Deepchord,
Iggy Pop,
Morten Harket,
Thompson Twins,
Black Sheep,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
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.