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 Mexico and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Michael McDonald 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 Idris Muhammad to the funk 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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All Ultravox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a AZ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doors,
Little Man,
Pole,
Youth Brigade,
John Coltrane,
Todd Rundgren,
Warren Ellis,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Essential Logic,
John Foxx,
Big Daddy Kane,
The New Christs,
Maleditus Sound,
Babytalk,
Bronski Beat,
Derrick May,
A Certain Ratio,
Masters at Work,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
John Lydon,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Dennis Brown,
Yazoo,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Dirtbombs,
Sonic Youth,
Audionom,
Pantytec,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Unwound,
Cheater Slicks,
Ituana,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Model 500,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Rites of Spring,
Amon Düül II,
Make Up,
Quadrant,
Roxy Music,
Scan 7,
This Heat,
Technova,
The Walker Brothers,
Davy DMX,
Man Parrish,
Radio Birdman,
Buzzcocks,
The Selecter,
Nico,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Junior Murvin,
Mission of Burma,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bobby Byrd,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Harmonia,
Fad Gadget,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan.
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.