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 Suriname and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 Bremen and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Toni Rubio to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spandau Ballet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bluetip,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Aaron Thompson,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gregory Isaacs,
Vladislav Delay,
Jeru the Damaja,
Silicon Teens,
Wire,
Can,
Sight & Sound,
Roxette,
Nils Olav,
E-Dancer,
Slick Rick,
The Busters,
Black Pus,
Stockholm Monsters,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Inner City,
The Slits,
Amazonics,
Gichy Dan,
Matthew Halsall,
Toni Rubio,
The Dead C,
Glambeats Corp.,
Morten Harket,
Reuben Wilson,
Black Moon,
The Buckinghams,
D'Angelo,
Flipper,
The Smoke,
Prince Buster,
F. McDonald,
The Selecter,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Saints,
Q and Not U,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Anakelly,
Duran Duran,
In Retrospect,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ornette Coleman,
the Human League,
Khruangbin,
Goldenarms,
The New Christs,
Alison Limerick,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rapeman,
Kaleidoscope,
The Gun Club,
Crispy Ambulance,
Suicide,
The Cure,
T.S.O.L.,
The Remains,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.