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 Ecuador and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 harpsichord 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 Aswad to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terror Squad Feat. Camron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visage,
Byron Stingily,
The Beau Brummels,
Kevin Saunderson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Shuggie Otis,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Procol Harum,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Blackbyrds,
Pantaleimon,
Sugar Minott,
Simply Red,
The Standells,
Radiohead,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
K-Klass,
Anakelly,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Blake Baxter,
Joyce Sims,
Q and Not U,
X-Ray Spex,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bluetip,
Joensuu 1685,
The Invisible,
The Red Krayola,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Siglo XX,
Yellowson,
John Coltrane,
Sun City Girls,
Nas,
Scott Walker,
Monks,
The Count Five,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Deakin,
Panda Bear,
the Swans,
AZ,
Oblivians,
Flipper,
Gastr Del Sol,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Brand Nubian,
Roxy Music,
The Alarm Clocks,
Swell Maps,
Kayak,
Donny Hathaway,
Kas Product,
Outsiders,
the Slits,
Gong,
Hardrive,
Nick Fraelich,
Pere Ubu,
Wolf Eyes,
Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water.
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.