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 Japan and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro 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 One Last Wish to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Knickerbockers 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?
The J.B.'s,
Iggy Pop,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Tom Boy,
Ken Boothe,
Second Layer,
The Trojans,
Stetsasonic,
Roxy Music,
Procol Harum,
Ohio Players,
The Slits,
The Young Rascals,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Alphaville,
Archie Shepp,
The Music Machine,
Danielle Patucci,
Excepter,
Young Marble Giants,
The Invisible,
Brick,
B.T. Express,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sällskapet,
These Immortal Souls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Gories,
Liliput,
Deepchord,
the Human League,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Mad Mike,
Flipper,
Mission of Burma,
Gong,
Sixth Finger,
The Doobie Brothers,
Metal Thangz,
Alison Limerick,
Todd Rundgren,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Mojo Men,
ABC,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Swell Maps,
Animal Collective,
Heaven 17,
The Remains,
Rakim,
The Velvet Underground,
Peter & Gordon,
Talk Talk,
Subhumans,
The Monks,
Crash Course in Science,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Eurythmics,
Judy Mowatt,
Agitation Free,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ponytail,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.