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 Mauritius and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 rhodes 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 Dennis Brown to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Glenn Branca. All the underground hits.
All The Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & Metallica 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Star Department,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Marvin Gaye,
Lee Hazlewood,
kango's stein massive,
Severed Heads,
the Sonics,
Todd Rundgren,
PIL,
Henry Cow,
Wasted Youth,
Alton Ellis,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Beasts of Bourbon,
T.S.O.L.,
The Mighty Diamonds,
R.M.O.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
In Retrospect,
Gong,
The Vogues,
Soul II Soul,
Swans,
48th St. Collective,
Lucky Dragons,
Matthew Bourne,
E-Dancer,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Joe Finger,
Rapeman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Subhumans,
The Knickerbockers,
Procol Harum,
The Smiths,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
DJ Style,
Country Teasers,
John Cale,
Amon Düül II,
Babytalk,
Fluxion,
Cheater Slicks,
Iggy Pop,
Ronnie Foster,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Remains,
Wings,
Jerry's Kids,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lalann,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Accadde A,
Grandmaster Flash,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rufus Thomas,
Stetsasonic,
Slave,
Brick,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.