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 Ivory Coast and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 mellotron 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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. All the underground hits.
All Cal Tjader tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every These Immortal Souls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Tubeway Army,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Blossom Toes,
Kenny Larkin,
Vainqueur,
Rhythm & Sound,
Saccharine Trust,
Can,
Anthony Braxton,
A Flock of Seagulls,
the Association,
Lindisfarne,
Bobby Sherman,
the Swans,
Malaria!,
Mo-Dettes,
Dennis Brown,
The Happenings,
Glenn Branca,
Crime,
Duran Duran,
John Lydon,
The New Christs,
Sparks,
The Golliwogs,
D'Angelo,
Agent Orange,
Neu!,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kurtis Blow,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Fortunes,
Index,
Goldenarms,
The Last Poets,
EPMD,
The Index,
Q and Not U,
Minor Threat,
Quantec,
Reuben Wilson,
Erykah Badu,
Ohio Players,
The Toasters,
Sugar Minott,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Skarface,
Animal Collective,
Bobby Womack,
Nas,
The Litter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Neon Judgement,
Crispian St. Peters,
Terrestrial Tones,
Arab on Radar,
Liliput,
Lightning Bolt,
Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl.
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.