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 Honduras and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Graham Central Station to the grime 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 Surgeon. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a kango's stein massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
T.S.O.L.,
Rosa Yemen,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
the Association,
Roxette,
La Düsseldorf,
Carl Craig,
Lou Reed,
The Moody Blues,
Iggy Pop,
Scott Walker,
Depeche Mode,
Letta Mbulu,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Ten City,
Nirvana,
Janne Schatter,
Nik Kershaw,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Black Dice,
Vainqueur,
Sam Rivers,
Average White Band,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Electric Prunes,
June Days,
Sun City Girls,
Los Fastidios,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Simply Red,
Zapp,
Marvin Gaye,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Boogie Down Productions,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Angry Samoans,
Soft Cell,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Fela Kuti,
Jeff Mills,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Fear,
Severed Heads,
Peter and Kerry,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Trumans Water,
Scientists,
The Red Krayola,
EPMD,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lungfish,
Radiohead,
Henry Cow,
Interpol,
Nico,
Skarface,
Sun Ra,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.