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 Uzbekistan and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 theremin 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 Surgeon to the techno 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 Oblivians. All the underground hits.
All Scion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kings Of Tomorrow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monolake,
June Days,
Siglo XX,
Ultravox,
Scott Walker,
The Invisible,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Litter,
John Holt,
The Vogues,
The Velvet Underground,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Isaac Hayes,
The Doobie Brothers,
Drexciya,
Connie Case,
Royal Trux,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Wings,
the Slits,
Electric Light Orchestra,
John Foxx,
The Cure,
Intrusion,
Neil Young,
The Stooges,
Camberwell Now,
Amazonics,
Fluxion,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pagans,
Livin' Joy,
Minnie Riperton,
The Detroit Cobras,
Tom Boy,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sister Nancy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Eli Mardock,
Gong,
The Zeros,
Stetsasonic,
Toni Rubio,
Von Mondo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Blackbyrds,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Black Sheep,
Scan 7,
Jeru the Damaja,
Franke,
Agitation Free,
Blake Baxter,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Gories,
Yaz,
The Dirtbombs,
The Durutti Column,
Alice Coltrane,
The Misunderstood,
Derrick Morgan,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.