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 Montenegro and from Sao Paulo.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 808 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 Wolf Eyes to the techno 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 Boz Scaggs. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delon & Dalcan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a AZ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
The Fall,
DJ Sneak,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sex Pistols,
Piero Umiliani,
Junior Murvin,
Minny Pops,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Deadbeat,
Curtis Mayfield,
Crooked Eye,
Section 25,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jerry's Kids,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Yaz,
Lou Christie,
Ten City,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Dual Sessions,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Brick,
Alton Ellis,
Harpers Bizarre,
Aaron Thompson,
The Neon Judgement,
B.T. Express,
Oblivians,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Suicide,
Arthur Verocai,
Adolescents,
Jimmy McGriff,
Morten Harket,
Swell Maps,
The Walker Brothers,
Fela Kuti,
Shuggie Otis,
Sam Rivers,
The Selecter,
Althea and Donna,
Skriet,
Thee Headcoats,
Matthew Halsall,
Laurel Aitken,
Rhythm & Sound,
Harry Pussy,
Essential Logic,
The Modern Lovers,
Warren Ellis,
Can,
Pantytec,
ABBA,
Japan,
Easy Going,
Amon Düül,
Television Personalities,
Mission of Burma,
10cc,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gastr Del Sol,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.