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 Iran and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Philadelphia.
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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Sonics to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All Marc Almond tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slick Rick,
Theoretical Girls,
Delta 5,
Bronski Beat,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Faust,
The Stooges,
MC5,
Peter & Gordon,
Yazoo,
Tears for Fears,
Gong,
Gang of Four,
Erasure,
The J.B.'s,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Cybotron,
The Count Five,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bobby Byrd,
Janne Schatter,
The Evens,
Drexciya,
Danielle Patucci,
The Buckinghams,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
MDC,
The Black Dice,
Fad Gadget,
Rites of Spring,
Sixth Finger,
Clear Light,
DNA,
kango's stein massive,
The Doors,
Joe Smooth,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sight & Sound,
Deepchord,
Ice-T,
Robert Görl,
Anakelly,
Wolf Eyes,
Eden Ahbez,
Television,
James White and The Blacks,
Juan Atkins,
KRS-One,
D'Angelo,
Sonic Youth,
Brand Nubian,
Black Sheep,
Skarface,
Nick Fraelich,
Bill Wells,
Lucky Dragons,
David Bowie,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Stetsasonic,
Brothers Johnson,
the Association,
ABC,
The Gories, The Gories, The Gories, The Gories.
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.