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 Sudan and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 theremin 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 Ludus to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Bang On A Can. All the underground hits.
All Au Pairs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hoover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott Heron,
DNA,
Severed Heads,
Prince Buster,
Max Romeo,
T.S.O.L.,
Bang On A Can,
H. Thieme,
Icehouse,
Rod Modell,
One Last Wish,
Thee Headcoats,
Alton Ellis,
Brick,
Depeche Mode,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Can,
Davy DMX,
Piero Umiliani,
The Techniques,
Sixth Finger,
Amon Düül,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Aural Exciters,
Mark Hollis,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Fuzztones,
Gregory Isaacs,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sonny Sharrock,
MC5,
Neil Young,
Country Teasers,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Red Krayola,
Fugazi,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gang of Four,
L. Decosne,
Fad Gadget,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bluetip,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Television,
Cluster,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Birthday Party,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lou Christie,
Cymande,
Monolake,
Connie Case,
The Index,
Altered Images,
Scott Walker,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Don Cherry,
World's Most,
Donny Hathaway,
Neu!, Neu!, Neu!, Neu!.
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.