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 Cameroon and from Spokane.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Holger Czukay 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes to the electroclash 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 the Slits. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gabor Szabo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick May record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Japan,
Lucky Dragons,
Robert Hood,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sonny Sharrock,
Brass Construction,
Agitation Free,
Cluster,
MC5,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
In Retrospect,
X-102,
Moss Icon,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Derrick May,
Arcadia,
Half Japanese,
Tres Demented,
Jimmy McGriff,
Soul Sonic Force,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Funkadelic,
Siglo XX,
Marvin Gaye,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ludus,
The Dave Clark Five,
Toni Rubio,
FM Einheit,
Chrome,
D'Angelo,
Technova,
a-ha,
Minny Pops,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Techniques,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Gladiators,
Sight & Sound,
Warsaw,
Arab on Radar,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Echospace,
Piero Umiliani,
The Fortunes,
The Smiths,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Monolake,
The Fugs,
The Evens,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bluetip,
Maurizio,
Symarip,
This Heat,
Second Layer,
Shuggie Otis,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Nik Kershaw,
Gerry Rafferty,
Kurtis Blow,
The Fuzztones,
Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape.
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.