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 Indonesia and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 Tokyo and Tokyo.
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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Country Joe & The Fish to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All Rod Modell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan 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 mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris & Cosey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Raincoats,
Young Marble Giants,
Archie Shepp,
B.T. Express,
Franke,
Deadbeat,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rhythm & Sound,
the Sonics,
Pole,
Fluxion,
Roy Ayers,
Talk Talk,
Das Ding,
The Sonics,
Reuben Wilson,
Tears for Fears,
Cecil Taylor,
Depeche Mode,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lyres,
The Cowsills,
Main Source,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lalann,
Suicide,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
David McCallum,
The Barracudas,
Amazonics,
Harpers Bizarre,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Johnny Clarke,
Brick,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kurtis Blow,
The Associates,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Maurizio,
Darondo,
Saccharine Trust,
Blossom Toes,
Average White Band,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Moody Blues,
In Retrospect,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Kinks,
R.M.O.,
Excepter,
Fela Kuti,
Dual Sessions,
John Holt,
CMW,
Crispian St. Peters,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bill Near,
Bob Dylan,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Al Stewart,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.