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 Nicaragua and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 mellotron 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 Sällskapet to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Qualms. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grey Daturas,
The Skatalites,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Smoke,
Minor Threat,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Fortunes,
The Tremeloes,
Essential Logic,
Janne Schatter,
Drexciya,
8 Eyed Spy,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Archie Shepp,
Jeff Lynne,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Cybotron,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Unwound,
Yazoo,
Shuggie Otis,
Tim Buckley,
Joe Finger,
Suicide,
Rekid,
Spandau Ballet,
The Gories,
Panda Bear,
Curtis Mayfield,
Agent Orange,
Amon Düül II,
Cymande,
Eden Ahbez,
Silicon Teens,
Kas Product,
The Fugs,
The Saints,
Blancmange,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Minnie Riperton,
David Bowie,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Standells,
Eve St. Jones,
The Barracudas,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Loose Ends,
Connie Case,
Al Stewart,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Morten Harket,
Severed Heads,
The Associates,
The Dead C,
Flipper,
Brick,
Kerrie Biddell,
Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band.
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.