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 Turkey and from Cairo.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 rhodes 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 Adolescents to the grunge 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 Albert Ayler. All the underground hits.
All Ponytail tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Man Eating Sloth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Frankie Knuckles,
Television Personalities,
Alphaville,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Jawbox,
The Mummies,
Rufus Thomas,
Vainqueur,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The United States of America,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Zapp,
The Gun Club,
Eve St. Jones,
Index,
Boz Scaggs,
PIL,
The Human League,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Kool Moe Dee,
Moebius,
The Dirtbombs,
Alice Coltrane,
X-102,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Fire Engines,
Ultravox,
Donald Byrd,
KRS-One,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
John Coltrane,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Siglo XX,
Lindisfarne,
The Birthday Party,
Donny Hathaway,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Barclay James Harvest,
Jeru the Damaja,
Kurtis Blow,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Altered Images,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Thompson Twins,
The Raincoats,
Slave,
Grey Daturas,
Wings,
T. Rex,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Drexciya,
Visage,
La Düsseldorf,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Oblivians,
Soul Sonic Force,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lucky Dragons,
The Smiths,
Eli Mardock,
Pet Shop Boys,
Smog, Smog, Smog, Smog.
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.