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 London.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Tehran.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Soft Cell to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a D'Angelo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlback,
EPMD,
Arthur Verocai,
B.T. Express,
Barry Ungar,
Chris & Cosey,
The Modern Lovers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Happenings,
The Black Dice,
Cheater Slicks,
Thee Headcoats,
Sonic Youth,
Grey Daturas,
Unwound,
Donald Byrd,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lyres,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Scan 7,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Tim Buckley,
Swans,
The American Breed,
Michelle Simonal,
Bob Dylan,
Rotary Connection,
Donny Hathaway,
the Slits,
Ohio Players,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Television Personalities,
June Days,
Kenny Larkin,
Dual Sessions,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bill Near,
The Zeros,
Cecil Taylor,
MDC,
The Seeds,
Make Up,
China Crisis,
Boredoms,
Man Parrish,
In Retrospect,
Marcia Griffiths,
Matthew Halsall,
D'Angelo,
Accadde A,
June of 44,
Sun Ra,
Joy Division,
Mary Jane Girls,
Symarip,
Rakim,
The Last Poets,
Banda Bassotti,
Sällskapet,
Crash Course in Science,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Bluetip, Bluetip, Bluetip, Bluetip.
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.