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 Romania and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 harpsichord 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 Inner City to the rock 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 Slave. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Names 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Foxx,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Busters,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Velvet Underground,
Khruangbin,
The New Christs,
Man Parrish,
The Selecter,
Schoolly D,
Pussy Galore,
Ronan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Tom Boy,
Johnny Clarke,
The Gap Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
Derrick May,
The Divine Comedy,
The Fortunes,
Scientists,
The Dead C,
The Dave Clark Five,
Joyce Sims,
The Real Kids,
Rotary Connection,
D'Angelo,
The Grass Roots,
Jacob Miller,
Gregory Isaacs,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
EPMD,
Graham Central Station,
Peter and Kerry,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
JFA,
Roxette,
ABBA,
Hoover,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kaleidoscope,
Altered Images,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Mr. Review,
Spoonie Gee,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Chrome,
Blossom Toes,
Funkadelic,
Supertramp,
Nation of Ulysses,
X-102,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sight & Sound,
The Last Poets,
Joy Division,
Nico,
Tim Buckley,
Archie Shepp,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.