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 Rwanda and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 rhodes 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 Scan 7 to the rock 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 the Swans. All the underground hits.
All a-ha tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Au Pairs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers 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?
Ralphi Rosario,
Bluetip,
Saccharine Trust,
Model 500,
Soul II Soul,
Black Moon,
Boredoms,
Second Layer,
Sixth Finger,
Jacques Brel,
Oneida,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Masters at Work,
Skriet,
The Angels of Light,
Maleditus Sound,
Skaos,
Patti Smith,
Brothers Johnson,
Letta Mbulu,
Quando Quango,
Frankie Knuckles,
Black Pus,
Aswad,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Zero Boys,
Grauzone,
Idris Muhammad,
Henry Cow,
DJ Sneak,
Mandrill,
Barrington Levy,
Moby Grape,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bill Near,
The Saints,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Hoover,
Ice-T,
The Trojans,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Can,
Essential Logic,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Pierre Henry,
The Selecter,
Bad Manners,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Howard Jones,
The Slackers,
Silicon Teens,
Harmonia,
Davy DMX,
One Last Wish,
Warren Ellis,
Gichy Dan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Standells,
Lou Christie,
The United States of America,
David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie.
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.