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 Malta and from Mumbai.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Dual Sessions to the funk 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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Associates record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
The Mummies,
cv313,
K-Klass,
Echospace,
Cecil Taylor,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Dennis Brown,
Arab on Radar,
Mary Jane Girls,
Stiv Bators,
Robert Görl,
Gichy Dan,
John Foxx,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Monks,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sex Pistols,
Inner City,
Bill Near,
T.S.O.L.,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Crispian St. Peters,
Piero Umiliani,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rufus Thomas,
The Smoke,
Derrick May,
Moby Grape,
Derrick Morgan,
Chris Corsano,
Nico,
Quando Quango,
Technova,
Fluxion,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Cowsills,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Accadde A,
Idris Muhammad,
Hardrive,
Skriet,
Anakelly,
Bobby Hutcherson,
R.M.O.,
Chris & Cosey,
Jeff Mills,
Eli Mardock,
Thompson Twins,
Peter and Kerry,
The Motions,
Minnie Riperton,
Newcleus,
The Flesh Eaters,
Dual Sessions,
Bobby Womack,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Kinks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pet Shop Boys,
Alton Ellis,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.