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 Estonia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Edmonton.
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 sitar 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 The Knickerbockers to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joyce Sims record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Duran Duran record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The New Christs,
Flash Fearless,
Guru Guru,
Alison Limerick,
Blake Baxter,
Marmalade,
Byron Stingily,
Underground Resistance,
Ash Ra Tempel,
the Sonics,
the Swans,
David Axelrod,
Agent Orange,
Stereo Dub,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Pharoah Sanders,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lucky Dragons,
Whodini,
Mary Jane Girls,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Fluxion,
the Slits,
Roger Hodgson,
Minny Pops,
Chrome,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Danielle Patucci,
The Fortunes,
The Five Americans,
Arab on Radar,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pantaleimon,
Ronnie Foster,
Bootsy Collins,
Brick,
The Residents,
The Buckinghams,
Livin' Joy,
Toni Rubio,
New Age Steppers,
Delon & Dalcan,
Scion,
Yellowson,
Supertramp,
X-Ray Spex,
Fifty Foot Hose,
a-ha,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Grass Roots,
Skaos,
Yusef Lateef,
Shuggie Otis,
Vainqueur,
Be Bop Deluxe,
EPMD,
Mantronix,
Funky Four + One,
The Kinks,
Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama.
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.