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 South Africa and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Janne Schatter to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All DJ Sneak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Barracudas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Eric Dolphy,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Cure,
Spandau Ballet,
Peter and Kerry,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Rhythm & Sound,
Symarip,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Marc Almond,
The Detroit Cobras,
Bang On A Can,
X-Ray Spex,
Amon Düül,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Music Machine,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Loose Ends,
Motorama,
The Velvet Underground,
Pharoah Sanders,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Section 25,
Stereo Dub,
Laurel Aitken,
The Fortunes,
Grey Daturas,
Aural Exciters,
The Monochrome Set,
Dual Sessions,
Tres Demented,
Grandmaster Flash,
Technova,
The Gladiators,
Goldenarms,
Basic Channel,
Severed Heads,
The Alarm Clocks,
Porter Ricks,
T. Rex,
Neu!,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Don Cherry,
Jandek,
Sugar Minott,
Deepchord,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Cameo,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Janne Schatter,
Youth Brigade,
Nik Kershaw,
Derrick Morgan,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ash Ra Tempel,
the Normal,
Radio Birdman,
DJ Style,
Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy.
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.