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 Monaco and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 David Bowie 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 Johnny Clarke to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 the Human League. All the underground hits.
All Rhythm & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Accadde A record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Mojo Men,
CMW,
Hasil Adkins,
Flamin' Groovies,
Excepter,
Amazonics,
Subhumans,
The Count Five,
Icehouse,
Derrick May,
Yazoo,
Nico,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Massinfluence,
Dead Boys,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Minor Threat,
Black Sheep,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kool Moe Dee,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Gladiators,
Hot Snakes,
The Last Poets,
Young Marble Giants,
Supertramp,
Erasure,
Porter Ricks,
Brass Construction,
Tim Buckley,
Kaleidoscope,
Buzzcocks,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pierre Henry,
Intrusion,
David McCallum,
Warren Ellis,
Altered Images,
Girls At Our Best!,
Joy Division,
Aswad,
Marmalade,
Slick Rick,
Chrome,
Anakelly,
Lucky Dragons,
Parry Music,
Colin Newman,
James Chance & The Contortions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deadbeat,
The Vogues,
Deakin,
The Motions,
Neu!,
Ten City,
Arcadia,
Pere Ubu,
The Fortunes,
Blake Baxter,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.