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 Venezuela and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Tommy Roe to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All The Moody Blues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tears for Fears record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The United States of America,
Quantec,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Public Enemy,
Dorothy Ashby,
Kerri Chandler,
Lakeside,
Motorama,
the Germs,
OOIOO,
Zapp,
Joyce Sims,
The Sound,
Theoretical Girls,
Sister Nancy,
The Busters,
Kevin Saunderson,
Eric B and Rakim,
Harpers Bizarre,
Japan,
Soulsonic Force,
Vladislav Delay,
The Gap Band,
Rufus Thomas,
Supertramp,
Audionom,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Invisible,
Joy Division,
Anakelly,
Rod Modell,
New York Dolls,
Blossom Toes,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Durutti Column,
Alton Ellis,
Barbara Tucker,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Dirtbombs,
Derrick Morgan,
Mission of Burma,
Lebanon Hanover,
Peter and Kerry,
Half Japanese,
Rites of Spring,
The Golliwogs,
Pagans,
FM Einheit,
The Dead C,
Fela Kuti,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
K-Klass,
Rekid,
Glenn Branca,
Skriet,
Letta Mbulu,
Q65,
Ponytail,
Yellowson,
Newcleus,
Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo.
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.