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 Taiwan and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Mandrill to the punk 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Sneak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Cure,
Robert Görl,
Joe Smooth,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sandy B,
Smog,
The Star Department,
Cal Tjader,
Livin' Joy,
Aural Exciters,
James White and The Blacks,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Tremeloes,
Lou Christie,
Skaos,
Thompson Twins,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Roy Ayers,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Beau Brummels,
the Germs,
Wolf Eyes,
John Cale,
Alice Coltrane,
Althea and Donna,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Nico,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Liliput,
Aloha Tigers,
Rapeman,
Vladislav Delay,
Model 500,
Faust,
Yazoo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
MC5,
Al Stewart,
Soulsonic Force,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cameo,
Donny Hathaway,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Shoche,
Aswad,
Arcadia,
Derrick May,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Fortunes,
Pulsallama,
Stockholm Monsters,
Skriet,
Accadde A,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nik Kershaw,
Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones.
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.