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 Croatia and from Hong Kong.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Royal Trux to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All The Dead C tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Slackers,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Dead Boys,
Ponytail,
Banda Bassotti,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Minnie Riperton,
Gang Green,
The Buckinghams,
Ludus,
Grey Daturas,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kenny Larkin,
Susan Cadogan,
The Searchers,
A Certain Ratio,
KRS-One,
Make Up,
Toni Rubio,
Bob Dylan,
T.S.O.L.,
Eric Copeland,
In Retrospect,
Pagans,
Rekid,
Young Marble Giants,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Absolute Body Control,
The Mummies,
Lower 48,
Fatback Band,
Godley & Creme,
Sam Rivers,
the Normal,
The Knickerbockers,
Brothers Johnson,
Barclay James Harvest,
Spoonie Gee,
The Residents,
Stereo Dub,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Main Source,
Chrome,
Rod Modell,
Monks,
Theoretical Girls,
The New Christs,
Ultravox,
Camouflage,
Glambeats Corp.,
H. Thieme,
Amazonics,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Eric Dolphy,
Ultimate Spinach,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobby Byrd,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
June of 44,
The Martian, The Martian, The Martian, The Martian.
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.