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 Jordan and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Nas to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marine Girls 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Audionom,
The Searchers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Divine Comedy,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Barrington Levy,
Public Enemy,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Beasts of Bourbon,
OOIOO,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gregory Isaacs,
Minny Pops,
Boredoms,
Echospace,
The Smoke,
Dawn Penn,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Funkadelic,
Los Fastidios,
Eve St. Jones,
The Standells,
Maurizio,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
the Association,
Das Ding,
Can,
The Last Poets,
Ken Boothe,
Charles Mingus,
Moby Grape,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Raincoats,
Brick,
Junior Murvin,
Ponytail,
Marshall Jefferson,
Roxette,
The Associates,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Andrew Hill,
Loose Ends,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Black Dice,
Alison Limerick,
Interpol,
The Misunderstood,
Cameo,
World's Most,
Bootsy Collins,
The Martian,
the Sonics,
Sunsets and Hearts,
In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect.
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.