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 Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Erasure to the electroclash 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 Roy Ayers. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wolf Eyes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Crash Course in Science,
Freddie Wadling,
The Motions,
Sex Pistols,
Malaria!,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cybotron,
Funky Four + One,
Neu!,
The Selecter,
Marmalade,
The Index,
Grauzone,
Ronan,
Aswad,
Sarah Menescal,
Frankie Knuckles,
Panda Bear,
Man Parrish,
Popol Vuh,
The Doobie Brothers,
Matthew Bourne,
Television,
The Evens,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Fuzztones,
Eric Dolphy,
Black Bananas,
Swans,
Yusef Lateef,
The Dave Clark Five,
Simply Red,
Echospace,
Steve Hackett,
Kurtis Blow,
Hardrive,
The Alarm Clocks,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
48th St. Collective,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Maurizio,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Blancmange,
Gang Starr,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
the Germs,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Severed Heads,
Monks,
Zapp,
Danielle Patucci,
Flash Fearless,
Alison Limerick,
Joe Smooth,
Matthew Halsall,
Liliput,
The Pretty Things,
Iggy Pop,
Sparks,
Yellowson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.