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 Palau and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All Eric Copeland tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Saccharine Trust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
8 Eyed Spy,
Yusef Lateef,
Derrick Morgan,
Half Japanese,
Babytalk,
Grey Daturas,
Joy Division,
Porter Ricks,
Khruangbin,
Cheater Slicks,
Shoche,
Bobby Sherman,
Amazonics,
Average White Band,
Joe Smooth,
Darondo,
Aaron Thompson,
Alice Coltrane,
Eden Ahbez,
Kerrie Biddell,
Howard Jones,
The Offenders,
A Certain Ratio,
The Buckinghams,
Black Pus,
the Soft Cell,
Lindisfarne,
Marmalade,
Minor Threat,
The Doors,
Nik Kershaw,
Pierre Henry,
Crash Course in Science,
John Foxx,
Glambeats Corp.,
Robert Görl,
Flipper,
Soft Cell,
Nico,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Monochrome Set,
Scan 7,
The Misunderstood,
Suburban Knight,
The Standells,
Moss Icon,
Audionom,
ABBA,
LL Cool J,
Yaz,
The Monks,
New Age Steppers,
Public Enemy,
the Human League,
This Heat,
Sarah Menescal,
Radiopuhelimet,
Con Funk Shun,
Easy Going,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Absolute Body Control,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.