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 Nepal and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Isaac Hayes to the funk 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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Con Funk Shun 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Tubeway Army,
The Slackers,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Inner City,
Duran Duran,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Happenings,
Intrusion,
Ponytail,
Easy Going,
Desert Stars,
Altered Images,
The Knickerbockers,
A Certain Ratio,
Von Mondo,
Althea and Donna,
Whodini,
Gang Gang Dance,
Pantytec,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Monolake,
Drive Like Jehu,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ultra Naté,
Black Flag,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Techniques,
Eli Mardock,
Nils Olav,
Massinfluence,
Blossom Toes,
Moby Grape,
Derrick May,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Derrick Morgan,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Shadows of Knight,
Mantronix,
Wasted Youth,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Count Five,
Fort Wilson Riot,
FM Einheit,
Motorama,
Matthew Bourne,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Buzzcocks,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Human League,
Johnny Clarke,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bill Wells,
Prince Buster,
The J.B.'s,
Basic Channel,
DNA,
F. McDonald,
Visage, Visage, Visage, Visage.
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.