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 Egypt and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 Mumbai and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Derrick Morgan to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All the Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every China Crisis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Graham Central Station record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Scion,
Lalann,
KRS-One,
Cameo,
Supertramp,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Delta 5,
Byron Stingily,
Kenny Larkin,
Rotary Connection,
Wire,
Pierre Henry,
the Human League,
Thompson Twins,
Young Marble Giants,
The Moody Blues,
Massinfluence,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Eurythmics,
Unwound,
The Real Kids,
Radiopuhelimet,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Angels of Light,
The Detroit Cobras,
Duran Duran,
The Slits,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Chrome,
Accadde A,
Davy DMX,
Outsiders,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Soft Cell,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Dead C,
Kerri Chandler,
Fear,
The Searchers,
The Slackers,
Junior Murvin,
Gong,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lucky Dragons,
10cc,
Malaria!,
Aloha Tigers,
Crispy Ambulance,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Neu!,
the Soft Cell,
Jeru the Damaja,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Quando Quango,
Bluetip,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Zero Boys,
Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan.
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.