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 Montenegro and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Thee Headcoats to the disco 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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious Big And Bone Thugs 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?
Barry Ungar,
Toni Rubio,
The Slackers,
Cluster,
Symarip,
Chris Corsano,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rites of Spring,
X-102,
The Last Poets,
Unwound,
Delta 5,
UT,
Chris & Cosey,
Mary Jane Girls,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Subhumans,
Ronan,
The Modern Lovers,
John Lydon,
the Germs,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Flipper,
Lalo Schifrin,
Judy Mowatt,
Scott Walker,
The Angels of Light,
Roxette,
Public Enemy,
These Immortal Souls,
Marshall Jefferson,
Joey Negro,
Spandau Ballet,
Davy DMX,
John Coltrane,
Flamin' Groovies,
Cameo,
Gang Green,
The Birthday Party,
Depeche Mode,
Tubeway Army,
Roxy Music,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
New York Dolls,
Minutemen,
Reagan Youth,
The Raincoats,
Johnny Clarke,
F. McDonald,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bush Tetras,
Yazoo,
The Leaves,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Tres Demented,
The Blackbyrds,
Barclay James Harvest,
Guru Guru,
Qualms,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Pop Group,
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.