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 Greece and from Copenhagen.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Invisible to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Interpol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crash Course in Science record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
Fluxion,
Nick Fraelich,
Andrew Hill,
The Sound,
Marc Almond,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Idris Muhammad,
Crooked Eye,
Zapp,
Pulsallama,
Bobby Womack,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
MC5,
Public Enemy,
Iggy Pop,
Silicon Teens,
The Fugs,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Model 500,
Soul II Soul,
Soul Sonic Force,
Gang Gang Dance,
Delon & Dalcan,
Eden Ahbez,
R.M.O.,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
K-Klass,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Freddie Wadling,
Suburban Knight,
Masters at Work,
Black Pus,
Camouflage,
Ronnie Foster,
Motorama,
Babytalk,
Rakim,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Music Machine,
Tubeway Army,
Talk Talk,
Newcleus,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Alice Coltrane,
Todd Rundgren,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Deakin,
ABBA,
Henry Cow,
Arab on Radar,
Erasure,
Audionom,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Saints,
Joe Finger,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
A Certain Ratio,
Donny Hathaway,
Skaos, Skaos, Skaos, Skaos.
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.