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 France and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 linndrum 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 Sexual Harrassment 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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All Judy Mowatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
Sun City Girls,
Maurizio,
Archie Shepp,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sex Pistols,
Wally Richardson,
Neil Young,
Pussy Galore,
10cc,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Toni Rubio,
Brass Construction,
Graham Central Station,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lakeside,
The Blackbyrds,
Icehouse,
Trumans Water,
Ludus,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Livin' Joy,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
David Axelrod,
Soul Sonic Force,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Skriet,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Suburban Knight,
Wings,
The Doobie Brothers,
Arcadia,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Monks,
Minor Threat,
Pantaleimon,
Glambeats Corp.,
AZ,
Jerry's Kids,
Robert Wyatt,
Section 25,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
H. Thieme,
The Smoke,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Morten Harket,
Thee Headcoats,
Vladislav Delay,
The J.B.'s,
Nik Kershaw,
the Human League,
Minnie Riperton,
Peter & Gordon,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Con Funk Shun,
Girls At Our Best!,
Public Enemy,
Roy Ayers,
Swans,
Infiniti,
DNA,
The Tremeloes,
Interpol, Interpol, Interpol, Interpol.
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.