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 Singapore and from Seoul.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the organ 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Joy Division tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Toni Rubio 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Slackers,
Scratch Acid,
the Swans,
Todd Rundgren,
Arab on Radar,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
China Crisis,
The Happenings,
Wasted Youth,
Todd Terry,
Negative Approach,
Alton Ellis,
Marvin Gaye,
Tubeway Army,
Groovy Waters,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Althea and Donna,
The Associates,
EPMD,
Boz Scaggs,
The Monochrome Set,
Minutemen,
Radio Birdman,
the Normal,
La Düsseldorf,
Bobby Womack,
Ludus,
June of 44,
Adolescents,
Gang Green,
The Red Krayola,
Essential Logic,
Radiohead,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Aswad,
Crispy Ambulance,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Soft Machine,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lebanon Hanover,
Make Up,
Bang On A Can,
James White and The Blacks,
Loose Ends,
Chrome,
The Barracudas,
Eric Dolphy,
These Immortal Souls,
The Stooges,
Livin' Joy,
Toni Rubio,
Mary Jane Girls,
David McCallum,
Stiv Bators,
Stetsasonic,
DNA,
Mr. Review,
L. Decosne,
Johnny Osbourne,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Steve Hackett,
Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley.
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.