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 Azerbaijan and from Manchester.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 arpeggiator 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 Organ 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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonic Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Byron Stingily,
Neu!,
Todd Rundgren,
Skarface,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Terrestrial Tones,
La Düsseldorf,
Mission of Burma,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Swell Maps,
Section 25,
Ultravox,
Franke,
Thee Headcoats,
The Doors,
Mantronix,
Simply Red,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Pop Group,
Oblivians,
Drexciya,
Electric Prunes,
Eden Ahbez,
Scion,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Last Poets,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
ABBA,
June Days,
The American Breed,
The Velvet Underground,
The Gories,
Sun City Girls,
Minutemen,
Jeff Lynne,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
R.M.O.,
Moby Grape,
Rekid,
Rosa Yemen,
Don Cherry,
Lucky Dragons,
Girls At Our Best!,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Robert Hood,
The Golliwogs,
The Star Department,
Cymande,
This Heat,
Bill Wells,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Zero Boys,
Delon & Dalcan,
Prince Buster,
Eli Mardock,
Maurizio,
The Skatalites,
Barrington Levy,
Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade.
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.