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 Palau and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 Columbus and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Khruangbin to the jazz 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 Man Parrish. All the underground hits.
All Scion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Model 500 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sonny Sharrock,
Newcleus,
the Association,
Desert Stars,
Blossom Toes,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Crash Course in Science,
Junior Murvin,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Joe Finger,
Barclay James Harvest,
Electric Prunes,
Sister Nancy,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Soul II Soul,
Kenny Larkin,
Q and Not U,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lower 48,
Scion,
Average White Band,
Todd Rundgren,
Grandmaster Flash,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Derrick May,
Slave,
Nirvana,
Warsaw,
Niagra,
The Cramps,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Pulsallama,
Bizarre Inc.,
Amon Düül II,
Hashim,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Agitation Free,
The Moleskins,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bill Near,
Harpers Bizarre,
In Retrospect,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
New York Dolls,
cv313,
H. Thieme,
Graham Central Station,
Radio Birdman,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Fluxion,
Lucky Dragons,
These Immortal Souls,
Young Marble Giants,
Public Image Ltd.,
Liliput,
The Count Five,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Erasure,
Skaos, Skaos, Skaos, Skaos.
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.