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 Singapore and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Manchester.
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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Tomorrow to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Bobby Byrd. All the underground hits.
All Moss Icon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
New York Dolls,
Hoover,
MC5,
The Neon Judgement,
AZ,
The Durutti Column,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Mojo Men,
The Happenings,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lyres,
Monks,
Bauhaus,
The Litter,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The United States of America,
Duran Duran,
FM Einheit,
Pantytec,
Rod Modell,
Television Personalities,
Wasted Youth,
Metal Thangz,
48th St. Collective,
Hasil Adkins,
Ultravox,
Moby Grape,
Roy Ayers,
Todd Rundgren,
Amon Düül II,
Judy Mowatt,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Tommy Roe,
8 Eyed Spy,
Max Romeo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Unwound,
the Fania All-Stars,
Subhumans,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
L. Decosne,
Alison Limerick,
Blake Baxter,
Jawbox,
Dennis Brown,
This Heat,
Sound Behaviour,
Cheater Slicks,
Eurythmics,
Dark Day,
Boz Scaggs,
Ken Boothe,
Television,
Marcia Griffiths,
Heaven 17,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Blues Magoos,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Dorothy Ashby,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.