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 Korea South 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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 clarinet 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 Scion to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All H. Thieme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siglo XX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Smog record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Negative Approach,
Spoonie Gee,
Young Marble Giants,
Camouflage,
Swell Maps,
Eddi Front,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Wally Richardson,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Fall,
ABC,
Popol Vuh,
Adolescents,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Alison Limerick,
David Axelrod,
Neu!,
John Lydon,
The Remains,
Lee Hazlewood,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Slave,
The Skatalites,
Tres Demented,
Sex Pistols,
Sonic Youth,
Don Cherry,
Zero Boys,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Wake,
Boredoms,
China Crisis,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
X-101,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Moleskins,
Half Japanese,
Echospace,
Junior Murvin,
Toni Rubio,
Judy Mowatt,
The Offenders,
The Young Rascals,
The Raincoats,
Country Joe & The Fish,
the Swans,
The Neon Judgement,
Blossom Toes,
R.M.O.,
Black Pus,
The Buckinghams,
Scion,
Donny Hathaway,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ultra Naté,
Godley & Creme,
Patti Smith,
L. Decosne,
Gabor Szabo,
Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo.
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.