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 Madagascar and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Main Source to the rock 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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Babytalk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Can,
Dawn Penn,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Nick Fraelich,
Pulsallama,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Organ,
Clear Light,
The Cowsills,
Delta 5,
Archie Shepp,
Zero Boys,
Ponytail,
Ken Boothe,
Flash Fearless,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Minnie Riperton,
Lou Reed,
Peter & Gordon,
Theoretical Girls,
Flamin' Groovies,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Goldenarms,
10cc,
Tommy Roe,
Spandau Ballet,
Intrusion,
MDC,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Youth Brigade,
Nico,
UT,
John Coltrane,
AZ,
Scrapy,
Mission of Burma,
Suicide,
Panda Bear,
Monolake,
Ten City,
Newcleus,
KRS-One,
Alton Ellis,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Neon Judgement,
Peter and Kerry,
Wire,
Wings,
Soulsonic Force,
Prince Buster,
The Dead C,
The Sisters of Mercy,
This Heat,
The Associates,
Cal Tjader,
Dual Sessions,
Rod Modell,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Fatback Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.