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 Nigeria 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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Sunsets and Hearts to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Wolf Eyes. All the underground hits.
All Teenage Jesus and the Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Vogues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
The Stooges,
Pet Shop Boys,
Blake Baxter,
The Skatalites,
The Modern Lovers,
The Beau Brummels,
Carl Craig,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
48th St. Collective,
Iggy Pop,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Public Enemy,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Joe Finger,
Zapp,
Eurythmics,
Kurtis Blow,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Girls At Our Best!,
Jeff Mills,
Television,
Babytalk,
Cheater Slicks,
ABC,
Essential Logic,
Accadde A,
Duran Duran,
Brick,
The Gap Band,
Kaleidoscope,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Neil Young,
Maleditus Sound,
Arab on Radar,
K-Klass,
John Cale,
Outsiders,
Ohio Players,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Prince Buster,
Grandmaster Flash,
Colin Newman,
The Trojans,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Gong,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Spoonie Gee,
Boredoms,
The Fortunes,
Simply Red,
Talk Talk,
The Techniques,
Robert Wyatt,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Fatback Band,
Interpol,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Walker Brothers,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
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.