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 Vanuatu and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Albert Ayler to the rock 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 John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Minny Pops tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Star Department,
Lucky Dragons,
Ohio Players,
Tommy Roe,
Aswad,
Dave Gahan,
Scratch Acid,
Vladislav Delay,
JFA,
Los Fastidios,
Connie Case,
Dual Sessions,
The Black Dice,
Bauhaus,
D'Angelo,
Slick Rick,
Surgeon,
Blancmange,
FM Einheit,
Juan Atkins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Japan,
Alton Ellis,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Charles Mingus,
Sonny Sharrock,
Man Eating Sloth,
Simply Red,
The Blues Magoos,
Johnny Osbourne,
Brand Nubian,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Jeff Lynne,
The Cowsills,
Roger Hodgson,
Television Personalities,
Black Flag,
the Germs,
Massinfluence,
Ultravox,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lee Hazlewood,
Kayak,
Au Pairs,
Clear Light,
Gastr Del Sol,
Panda Bear,
Skriet,
R.M.O.,
Nik Kershaw,
Pussy Galore,
Das Ding,
Altered Images,
Brothers Johnson,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
John Holt,
Scion,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.