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 Turkey and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 Tehran and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Sam Rivers to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Ultimate Spinach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nation of Ulysses record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
The Fuzztones,
Funkadelic,
Das Ding,
Radio Birdman,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Tom Boy,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Fire Engines,
Maleditus Sound,
Lalann,
Alphaville,
Talk Talk,
Silicon Teens,
Bootsy Collins,
Spoonie Gee,
Wire,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Barbara Tucker,
Outsiders,
The Five Americans,
Todd Rundgren,
Circle Jerks,
PIL,
The Birthday Party,
Sun City Girls,
Newcleus,
Intrusion,
Kayak,
The Cowsills,
Stereo Dub,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Motions,
E-Dancer,
Second Layer,
Jesper Dahlback,
Black Bananas,
Rufus Thomas,
Sam Rivers,
Dark Day,
Roy Ayers,
Public Image Ltd.,
Lower 48,
Roxette,
The Vogues,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
These Immortal Souls,
Hashim,
Stockholm Monsters,
Black Flag,
Echospace,
DJ Sneak,
Chris & Cosey,
Aural Exciters,
Warren Ellis,
Sound Behaviour,
New Order,
Panda Bear,
Freddie Wadling,
Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms.
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.