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 Germany and from Tokyo.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Nik Kershaw to the dance 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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All Scientists tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jawbox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fear,
Trumans Water,
Ralphi Rosario,
Connie Case,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Soul Sonic Force,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Susan Cadogan,
Pussy Galore,
Ten City,
The Evens,
Delta 5,
Black Flag,
Archie Shepp,
The Black Dice,
Jesper Dahlback,
Junior Murvin,
Erykah Badu,
The Associates,
John Holt,
Eurythmics,
Ponytail,
Siglo XX,
Skarface,
Heaven 17,
Bill Near,
Public Image Ltd.,
Shoche,
The Modern Lovers,
Clear Light,
Quando Quango,
Danielle Patucci,
Reuben Wilson,
Thompson Twins,
Donny Hathaway,
Sarah Menescal,
Bronski Beat,
Derrick May,
The Pretty Things,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Theoretical Girls,
The Fortunes,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Public Enemy,
The Dave Clark Five,
Mark Hollis,
Maleditus Sound,
LL Cool J,
Lower 48,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ultravox,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rites of Spring,
The Electric Prunes,
Quantec,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gastr Del Sol,
Mars,
Barrington Levy,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Tremeloes,
Gang Gang Dance,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme.
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.