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 Luxembourg and from Stockholm.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 sitar 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 Yaz 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 Jacques Brel. All the underground hits.
All Black Moon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sarah Menescal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yellowson,
Toni Rubio,
Joey Negro,
Ohio Players,
Smog,
Roger Hodgson,
Von Mondo,
Crispy Ambulance,
Quadrant,
Ralphi Rosario,
Accadde A,
Can,
The Happenings,
Jandek,
The Vogues,
Agitation Free,
Freddie Wadling,
Neil Young,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gang Gang Dance,
Clear Light,
The Cowsills,
Pierre Henry,
Throbbing Gristle,
MDC,
Chris Corsano,
Idris Muhammad,
a-ha,
Flash Fearless,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Crispian St. Peters,
Country Teasers,
Neu!,
Glenn Branca,
Glambeats Corp.,
Au Pairs,
The Trojans,
Deepchord,
The Fire Engines,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bobby Womack,
Minor Threat,
Kayak,
Drexciya,
Interpol,
Flamin' Groovies,
Todd Terry,
Gregory Isaacs,
Derrick Morgan,
Scott Walker,
The Busters,
Warren Ellis,
Excepter,
The Slits,
Lightning Bolt,
Unrelated Segments,
Harmonia,
The Shadows of Knight,
Section 25,
The Seeds,
The Pop Group,
Joe Smooth,
Matthew Halsall,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.