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 Iran and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Angels of Light. All the underground hits.
All Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultra Naté record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Holt,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Kayak,
The Martian,
Arcadia,
Byron Stingily,
Audionom,
Liliput,
Q and Not U,
Camouflage,
The Stooges,
Stockholm Monsters,
Marc Almond,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
In Retrospect,
Ronnie Foster,
The Cowsills,
Mandrill,
Marine Girls,
Kenny Larkin,
Bluetip,
U.S. Maple,
Mars,
Oneida,
David Axelrod,
Leonard Cohen,
Soft Cell,
Sam Rivers,
Eric Copeland,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Royal Trux,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Kerrie Biddell,
Warren Ellis,
Babytalk,
Nas,
Moss Icon,
Ultra Naté,
Sarah Menescal,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Roxette,
Aloha Tigers,
Bush Tetras,
Danielle Patucci,
Black Pus,
Terrestrial Tones,
Roy Ayers,
Roxy Music,
The Doobie Brothers,
Idris Muhammad,
The Electric Prunes,
The Doors,
EPMD,
The Toasters,
Jacob Miller,
Gichy Dan,
The Gun Club,
Kaleidoscope,
Popol Vuh,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.