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 Turkey and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Rotary Connection to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crooked Eye record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy Collins,
Animal Collective,
Schoolly D,
Groovy Waters,
Marshall Jefferson,
Television Personalities,
Maurizio,
Chris & Cosey,
Godley & Creme,
Lakeside,
Adolescents,
Joe Smooth,
Blossom Toes,
Second Layer,
Lower 48,
Funky Four + One,
Johnny Clarke,
Radiohead,
Girls At Our Best!,
Underground Resistance,
Robert Wyatt,
Bluetip,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Grey Daturas,
David Axelrod,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
ABC,
The Smiths,
Marine Girls,
Terry Callier,
John Lydon,
China Crisis,
Tim Buckley,
Infiniti,
Joey Negro,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Black Moon,
Circle Jerks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Audionom,
Grandmaster Flash,
Brothers Johnson,
Toni Rubio,
Shoche,
Laurel Aitken,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Harpers Bizarre,
Jacques Brel,
Make Up,
Cameo,
Prince Buster,
Pet Shop Boys,
Theoretical Girls,
Drexciya,
Lou Reed,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Moleskins,
Peter & Gordon,
Masters at Work,
The Gories,
The Gladiators,
The Index, The Index, The Index, The Index.
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.