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 Senegal and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 snare 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 Bluetip to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Silicon Teens. All the underground hits.
All Alphaville tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Names record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moleskins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Mandrill,
The Selecter,
Thee Headcoats,
Joensuu 1685,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Idris Muhammad,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
World's Most,
Popol Vuh,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Mission of Burma,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Hasil Adkins,
Schoolly D,
Terrestrial Tones,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Tommy Roe,
Simply Red,
Tubeway Army,
Circle Jerks,
Bauhaus,
Magma,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
MDC,
Joe Smooth,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Morten Harket,
The Victims,
Country Teasers,
Stereo Dub,
Sound Behaviour,
Subhumans,
Gang of Four,
Cecil Taylor,
Archie Shepp,
Quando Quango,
The Blues Magoos,
Metal Thangz,
Smog,
Sandy B,
X-Ray Spex,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
a-ha,
Suburban Knight,
Lee Hazlewood,
Arthur Verocai,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Harry Pussy,
Deakin,
Derrick May,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Cramps,
Dark Day,
Das Ding,
The Doors,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Henry Cow,
The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers.
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.