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 Bahrain and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Jesper Dahlbäck to the grunge 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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All Tim Buckley tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chrome record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mission of Burma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Cheater Slicks,
Jawbox,
La Düsseldorf,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
the Human League,
Sound Behaviour,
Idris Muhammad,
Tropical Tobacco,
Black Flag,
The Tremeloes,
MC5,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ronnie Foster,
Anakelly,
Brick,
New Order,
Glenn Branca,
The Modern Lovers,
Infiniti,
Camberwell Now,
EPMD,
Quando Quango,
The Flesh Eaters,
Morten Harket,
Sam Rivers,
The Dirtbombs,
Junior Murvin,
Fugazi,
Arthur Verocai,
The Slackers,
Barclay James Harvest,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Selecter,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Mo-Dettes,
D'Angelo,
Neil Young,
Hashim,
Terrestrial Tones,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Gladiators,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bauhaus,
The Moleskins,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Malaria!,
June of 44,
The Busters,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Archie Shepp,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jeff Mills,
Half Japanese,
Los Fastidios,
Tears for Fears,
Joe Finger,
Marshall Jefferson,
Crime,
Steve Hackett,
Interpol,
Neu!,
Echospace, Echospace, Echospace, Echospace.
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.