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 Sierra Leone and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 guitar 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 Hashim to the rap 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Masters at Work,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Royal Trux,
The Walker Brothers,
the Soft Cell,
Jandek,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rhythm & Sound,
Nils Olav,
Black Moon,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gabor Szabo,
Magma,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Leonard Cohen,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bobby Sherman,
Joe Finger,
Inner City,
Cecil Taylor,
The Shadows of Knight,
Vainqueur,
Unrelated Segments,
Moby Grape,
Nick Fraelich,
Can,
Skaos,
DJ Sneak,
Supertramp,
Icehouse,
Davy DMX,
Iggy Pop,
Outsiders,
Fluxion,
Spandau Ballet,
John Cale,
Swell Maps,
Wasted Youth,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Modern Lovers,
L. Decosne,
Moebius,
The Seeds,
Mission of Burma,
Godley & Creme,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Black Sheep,
Lucky Dragons,
Arcadia,
Roxy Music,
The Toasters,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pulsallama,
Soulsonic Force,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Average White Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
EPMD, EPMD, EPMD, EPMD.
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.