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 Mexico and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the oboe 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 The Toasters to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Gong. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vainqueur record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q65,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Martian,
Lower 48,
Frankie Knuckles,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Electric Prunes,
Severed Heads,
Television,
The Vogues,
Country Joe & The Fish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Oblivians,
Qualms,
X-Ray Spex,
Scion,
Sixth Finger,
Jeff Mills,
The Blues Magoos,
kango's stein massive,
Slave,
Khruangbin,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Divine Comedy,
Toni Rubio,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Country Teasers,
Parry Music,
Neu!,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Oneida,
The Litter,
Black Moon,
Eric Dolphy,
Mr. Review,
Sällskapet,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sugar Minott,
Goldenarms,
Funky Four + One,
Nik Kershaw,
Lyres,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Black Bananas,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Bronski Beat,
Soft Machine,
Johnny Osbourne,
This Heat,
Eurythmics,
The Beau Brummels,
Main Source,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Monks,
June Days,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Radiopuhelimet,
Crispian St. Peters,
Los Fastidios,
One Last Wish,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.