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 Madagascar and from Hong Kong.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Subhumans to the grime 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 Accadde A. All the underground hits.
All Public Image Ltd. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brass Construction 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a AZ 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?
Ralphi Rosario,
Lucky Dragons,
Jeff Lynne,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Swans,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Fluxion,
Deadbeat,
The Moody Blues,
Roxette,
Piero Umiliani,
Todd Rundgren,
Intrusion,
Supertramp,
Massinfluence,
Ten City,
Panda Bear,
Maleditus Sound,
Pantaleimon,
The Black Dice,
Maurizio,
Boredoms,
Jacob Miller,
Bill Near,
Carl Craig,
Underground Resistance,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ronnie Foster,
Vainqueur,
Y Pants,
Malaria!,
Kaleidoscope,
Sällskapet,
Nik Kershaw,
The Skatalites,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Neon Judgement,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Pretty Things,
The Litter,
Scrapy,
Alphaville,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Nils Olav,
Index,
Brand Nubian,
PIL,
The Fuzztones,
Q and Not U,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
It's A Beautiful Day,
L. Decosne,
Negative Approach,
Soulsonic Force,
Hoover,
Section 25,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Barracudas,
Rotary Connection,
Kevin Saunderson,
Reuben Wilson,
Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer.
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.