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 Papua New Guinea and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Remains to the rock 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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All Selector Dub Narcotic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eyeless In Gaza record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers Ubiquity record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Tomorrow,
Alton Ellis,
Unrelated Segments,
the Slits,
Supertramp,
Massinfluence,
Swell Maps,
Traffic Nightmare,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Audionom,
Maleditus Sound,
Sexual Harrassment,
Godley & Creme,
48th St. Collective,
Scrapy,
Dawn Penn,
Agent Orange,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Nirvana,
Grandmaster Flash,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
These Immortal Souls,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joe Smooth,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Television,
The Electric Prunes,
Yellowson,
The Golliwogs,
Suicide,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bill Wells,
The Monks,
Pharoah Sanders,
Maurizio,
Hashim,
Von Mondo,
Chrome,
Sällskapet,
The Dead C,
Girls At Our Best!,
Rosa Yemen,
R.M.O.,
Panda Bear,
Bad Manners,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Minnie Riperton,
Altered Images,
Roxette,
L. Decosne,
Inner City,
the Bar-Kays,
Johnny Osbourne,
Flash Fearless,
Quando Quango,
Aural Exciters,
Scion,
The Music Machine,
Jimmy McGriff,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.