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 Netherlands and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 güiro 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 Eric Copeland to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Steve Hackett record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cluster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Stockholm Monsters,
Shuggie Otis,
Smog,
The Young Rascals,
The Saints,
Q and Not U,
Fela Kuti,
Severed Heads,
The Dave Clark Five,
Carl Craig,
Gang Green,
Excepter,
The Slits,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Desert Stars,
The Monochrome Set,
D'Angelo,
Essential Logic,
The United States of America,
Pylon,
Pagans,
Television,
Lungfish,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Joe Smooth,
H. Thieme,
Deadbeat,
The Move,
Henry Cow,
Steve Hackett,
Loose Ends,
The Count Five,
Roy Ayers,
Derrick May,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bush Tetras,
Amon Düül II,
Mantronix,
Donny Hathaway,
Glenn Branca,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Colin Newman,
Rotary Connection,
Moby Grape,
Groovy Waters,
Leonard Cohen,
Todd Terry,
The Star Department,
Livin' Joy,
X-102,
Anakelly,
Jeff Lynne,
Laurel Aitken,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Grauzone,
Rosa Yemen,
Archie Shepp,
Jandek,
The Cure,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed.
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.