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 Denmark and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin 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 Crime to the punk 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 Human League. All the underground hits.
All Sixth Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glambeats Corp. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mars,
The Pop Group,
Porter Ricks,
Steve Hackett,
Excepter,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sun City Girls,
Gichy Dan,
Flipper,
The Cramps,
Grandmaster Flash,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Amon Düül,
Yazoo,
Marc Almond,
Brothers Johnson,
DJ Style,
Carl Craig,
Marine Girls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
KRS-One,
DJ Sneak,
Depeche Mode,
The Names,
Rosa Yemen,
One Last Wish,
Slick Rick,
Liliput,
Joyce Sims,
The Mighty Diamonds,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Dave Clark Five,
Circle Jerks,
The Invisible,
Au Pairs,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Trojans,
Hardrive,
Minny Pops,
F. McDonald,
The Buckinghams,
Rapeman,
The Slits,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Martian,
Echospace,
Peter and Kerry,
The Tremeloes,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Knickerbockers,
Aural Exciters,
Bizarre Inc.,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Boz Scaggs,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Pantytec,
Aaron Thompson,
Delta 5,
Severed Heads,
Magazine,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids.
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.