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 Sierra Leone and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sarah Menescal to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Andrew Hill. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sister Nancy,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Smiths,
Spandau Ballet,
Aural Exciters,
Tom Boy,
Whodini,
Electric Prunes,
The Invisible,
New Order,
Peter and Kerry,
Smog,
a-ha,
The Mummies,
Scratch Acid,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gastr Del Sol,
Inner City,
The Barracudas,
Warsaw,
Pet Shop Boys,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sound Behaviour,
Adolescents,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Underground Resistance,
Barbara Tucker,
The J.B.'s,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Seeds,
The Knickerbockers,
Nirvana,
Freddie Wadling,
Jeff Lynne,
Supertramp,
Robert Görl,
Lalann,
The Cure,
Deepchord,
Urselle,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
B.T. Express,
Rekid,
Radiohead,
These Immortal Souls,
Mandrill,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Faraquet,
One Last Wish,
The Fall,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Marvin Gaye,
Rufus Thomas,
Fatback Band,
Black Moon,
Bobby Byrd,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Country Teasers,
Ituana,
Josef K,
Brothers Johnson,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.