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 Turkmenistan and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Suicide to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Max Romeo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hoover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
X-102,
The Slits,
Vladislav Delay,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Dorothy Ashby,
Quantec,
Khruangbin,
The Modern Lovers,
Unwound,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ludus,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Alice Coltrane,
Goldenarms,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Youth Brigade,
Pagans,
Roxy Music,
Nas,
The Martian,
Audionom,
The Blackbyrds,
Alton Ellis,
The Slackers,
The Misunderstood,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Sister Nancy,
Country Teasers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gang of Four,
Cecil Taylor,
Donny Hathaway,
The Human League,
Maurizio,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ponytail,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Happenings,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Symarip,
Camberwell Now,
The Walker Brothers,
Monolake,
T. Rex,
Moby Grape,
Bauhaus,
John Coltrane,
The Monks,
Andrew Hill,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Reuben Wilson,
Piero Umiliani,
Tears for Fears,
Mars,
Technova,
The Tremeloes,
Joey Negro,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.