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 Cuba and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Cybotron to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Qualms. All the underground hits.
All Marshall Jefferson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Sonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Remains record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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 Human League,
Young Marble Giants,
Pere Ubu,
Quantec,
Lungfish,
Dual Sessions,
Mandrill,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Amon Düül II,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Visage,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Black Sheep,
Leonard Cohen,
Gang Green,
Main Source,
The Trojans,
The Toasters,
EPMD,
Toni Rubio,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The New Christs,
Zapp,
Jeff Lynne,
Gerry Rafferty,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Suicide,
Supertramp,
Sun Ra,
Kayak,
Parry Music,
The Wake,
The Buckinghams,
Yusef Lateef,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Knickerbockers,
Lou Christie,
Ken Boothe,
Sister Nancy,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Deepchord,
Colin Newman,
Mantronix,
Kenny Larkin,
Minor Threat,
Avey Tare,
Hoover,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Charles Mingus,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Nation of Ulysses,
Arthur Verocai,
The Doobie Brothers,
Drexciya,
Buzzcocks,
Vainqueur,
Lucky Dragons,
Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen.
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.