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 Paraguay and from Cairo.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the 808 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 Dawn Penn to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Angels of Light. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Shadows of Knight 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Index,
Subhumans,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sun City Girls,
Absolute Body Control,
John Holt,
B.T. Express,
Glenn Branca,
Lalo Schifrin,
Roxette,
F. McDonald,
Von Mondo,
The Cramps,
Q and Not U,
10cc,
Silicon Teens,
John Foxx,
Infiniti,
Johnny Clarke,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Motorama,
Morten Harket,
Reuben Wilson,
Mars,
Youth Brigade,
Moebius,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Tomorrow,
Lower 48,
David McCallum,
Amon Düül,
The Neon Judgement,
ABBA,
PIL,
Camouflage,
The Moleskins,
Don Cherry,
Todd Rundgren,
The Evens,
Sight & Sound,
Jacob Miller,
Grauzone,
Heaven 17,
Franke,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Isaac Hayes,
Japan,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Parry Music,
Ten City,
Maurizio,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Vogues,
Bill Wells,
Whodini,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lou Reed,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Drive Like Jehu,
Symarip,
Eve St. Jones,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.