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 Latvia and from Madrid.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sun Ra to the rock 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 Ultimate Spinach. All the underground hits.
All Thee Headcoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fifty Foot Hose record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bronski Beat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Flash Fearless,
Mo-Dettes,
Prince Buster,
This Heat,
Nico,
Erasure,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Clear Light,
Neu!,
Cecil Taylor,
Boz Scaggs,
Hasil Adkins,
Rites of Spring,
Newcleus,
Yaz,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Man Parrish,
Accadde A,
La Düsseldorf,
Chrome,
Jeru the Damaja,
Graham Central Station,
Metal Thangz,
Nik Kershaw,
Arab on Radar,
The Techniques,
Funky Four + One,
The Kinks,
The Raincoats,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Joe Finger,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Blossom Toes,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Modern Lovers,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
UT,
Henry Cow,
The Victims,
Lightning Bolt,
F. McDonald,
Duran Duran,
Quadrant,
The Cramps,
Inner City,
Pet Shop Boys,
Joy Division,
Absolute Body Control,
Laurel Aitken,
Jerry Gold Smith,
10cc,
Wally Richardson,
Unwound,
Jandek,
The Shadows of Knight,
Crash Course in Science,
The Trojans,
Fugazi,
The Vogues,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.