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 Ireland and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 punk 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 Young Marble Giants. All the underground hits.
All Hot Snakes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skriet 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Leaves record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mighty Diamonds,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ten City,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Mantronix,
Hot Snakes,
Minny Pops,
Von Mondo,
Sam Rivers,
Average White Band,
The Blackbyrds,
Animal Collective,
Scientists,
The Fuzztones,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
F. McDonald,
The Golliwogs,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bobby Womack,
Barbara Tucker,
Funkadelic,
The Young Rascals,
Khruangbin,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Supertramp,
Marvin Gaye,
Royal Trux,
The Gories,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Main Source,
Clear Light,
The Seeds,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Busters,
Agent Orange,
Erykah Badu,
Deadbeat,
Tres Demented,
DJ Sneak,
Scrapy,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Derrick Morgan,
Goldenarms,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Alarm Clocks,
Freddie Wadling,
Girls At Our Best!,
OOIOO,
Pussy Galore,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Trumans Water,
Tubeway Army,
Camberwell Now,
Public Image Ltd.,
Archie Shepp,
Ultimate Spinach,
Gerry Rafferty,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.