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 Honduras and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Smoke to the disco 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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Underground Resistance 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eyeless In Gaza record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kayak,
Isaac Hayes,
Quadrant,
Outsiders,
The Skatalites,
Black Bananas,
The Gories,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The United States of America,
Don Cherry,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Mandrill,
James White and The Blacks,
FM Einheit,
the Association,
Boz Scaggs,
Wasted Youth,
Model 500,
MC5,
Bill Near,
Essential Logic,
Ohio Players,
Roger Hodgson,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Audionom,
Deepchord,
Matthew Bourne,
Carl Craig,
Lebanon Hanover,
Brass Construction,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lalann,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Tim Buckley,
Henry Cow,
Rites of Spring,
Lyres,
Bobby Byrd,
Simply Red,
Icehouse,
Fear,
Al Stewart,
Inner City,
Fela Kuti,
Albert Ayler,
Nick Fraelich,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Fortunes,
Michelle Simonal,
The Move,
Oneida,
Prince Buster,
Hasil Adkins,
Danielle Patucci,
The Zeros,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Symarip,
the Soft Cell,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.