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 Brazil and from Shanghai.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Accra.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Fela Kuti to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 the Normal. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
Nirvana,
Swans,
Mission of Burma,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Stooges,
Section 25,
Livin' Joy,
UT,
The Monks,
The Invisible,
The Searchers,
Neil Young,
Half Japanese,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Index,
FM Einheit,
Massinfluence,
The Smoke,
Pulsallama,
Peter and Kerry,
Gabor Szabo,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Jeru the Damaja,
David McCallum,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Cameo,
Pantytec,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lyres,
The Count Five,
John Holt,
Jimmy McGriff,
Robert Hood,
The Litter,
Pierre Henry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Soft Machine,
The Vogues,
Depeche Mode,
the Slits,
Roxette,
Thompson Twins,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Golliwogs,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Drexciya,
David Bowie,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Aaron Thompson,
L. Decosne,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Procol Harum,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Detroit Cobras,
Scientists,
Fatback Band,
The Selecter,
The Seeds,
Warren Ellis,
Michelle Simonal,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.