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 Jordan and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 oboe 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 Radiohead to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All Porter Ricks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marc Almond 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Angry Samoans,
The Misunderstood,
Cluster,
Fad Gadget,
Unrelated Segments,
The Buckinghams,
Absolute Body Control,
Basic Channel,
Index,
Amon Düül,
The Searchers,
Sam Rivers,
Yellowson,
Bauhaus,
Alton Ellis,
Reuben Wilson,
John Foxx,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Martian,
LL Cool J,
D'Angelo,
Judy Mowatt,
Cal Tjader,
Soft Machine,
Popol Vuh,
Jawbox,
Accadde A,
Gichy Dan,
Blancmange,
Youth Brigade,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pussy Galore,
Lalann,
Cameo,
Slick Rick,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Flipper,
Peter & Gordon,
Supertramp,
June of 44,
New Age Steppers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Eve St. Jones,
Stereo Dub,
The Selecter,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Skarface,
One Last Wish,
The Detroit Cobras,
Scott Walker,
Bizarre Inc.,
Yaz,
Fugazi,
Deakin,
Erasure,
Minutemen,
Trumans Water,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.