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 Lebanon 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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 güiro 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 Country Teasers to the rock 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 Shuggie Otis. All the underground hits.
All Cheater Slicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
The Barracudas,
Average White Band,
The Fuzztones,
Isaac Hayes,
David Axelrod,
Black Flag,
The Detroit Cobras,
Roger Hodgson,
The J.B.'s,
The New Christs,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Vogues,
a-ha,
The Saints,
Spoonie Gee,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Names,
Main Source,
Avey Tare,
The Wake,
Aaron Thompson,
Sound Behaviour,
Eve St. Jones,
Junior Murvin,
Barrington Levy,
Kerrie Biddell,
Graham Central Station,
Janne Schatter,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Idris Muhammad,
Essential Logic,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
the Association,
Guru Guru,
Fluxion,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Associates,
Mars,
Inner City,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Fugazi,
Roy Ayers,
The Moleskins,
Eurythmics,
Urselle,
Franke,
Harry Pussy,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Marmalade,
This Heat,
The Fall,
Gichy Dan,
Parry Music,
Lakeside,
Can,
The Birthday Party,
kango's stein massive,
The Evens,
The Tremeloes,
Electric Prunes,
Shoche,
The Happenings,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.