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 Finland and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 808 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 Minor Threat to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Beasts of Bourbon. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
JFA,
Agent Orange,
Stockholm Monsters,
John Coltrane,
Sixth Finger,
The Gories,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
10cc,
Public Enemy,
Dave Gahan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Desert Stars,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Magazine,
Funkadelic,
Visage,
Kayak,
The Fortunes,
Aloha Tigers,
Eric Dolphy,
Drive Like Jehu,
Mark Hollis,
Stetsasonic,
X-Ray Spex,
Donald Byrd,
Country Teasers,
Agitation Free,
Marvin Gaye,
Man Parrish,
The Sound,
Maurizio,
Sarah Menescal,
Morten Harket,
Ornette Coleman,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Derrick May,
Nirvana,
The Index,
Subhumans,
Roxette,
Jandek,
Gichy Dan,
Lyres,
Scratch Acid,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Whodini,
Joyce Sims,
Toni Rubio,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Camberwell Now,
Dead Boys,
China Crisis,
Negative Approach,
the Slits,
Bad Manners,
Flipper,
Al Stewart,
Underground Resistance,
The Mummies,
Frankie Knuckles,
This Heat, This Heat, This Heat, This Heat.
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.