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 Gabon and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Accra.
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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the crunk 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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All The Golliwogs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wolf Eyes,
the Human League,
Gregory Isaacs,
Severed Heads,
The Vogues,
Byron Stingily,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Maleditus Sound,
Joe Finger,
Sound Behaviour,
MC5,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Leaves,
Blake Baxter,
the Bar-Kays,
The Moleskins,
The Index,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gichy Dan,
Visage,
Deadbeat,
Index,
Loose Ends,
Guru Guru,
John Coltrane,
Quadrant,
Marvin Gaye,
Fugazi,
Soulsonic Force,
Parry Music,
Yazoo,
Chris Corsano,
Radiohead,
Rod Modell,
Sarah Menescal,
kango's stein massive,
Black Moon,
Essential Logic,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Susan Cadogan,
Wally Richardson,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Rapeman,
The Fuzztones,
Bootsy Collins,
Smog,
Erykah Badu,
Sandy B,
Radio Birdman,
The Young Rascals,
Sparks,
Ronan,
Reagan Youth,
F. McDonald,
Dave Gahan,
Zapp,
the Swans,
Idris Muhammad,
Piero Umiliani,
Gang Green,
Jeru the Damaja,
the Association,
Thompson Twins,
Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape.
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.