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 Samoa and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 Cybotron to the grunge 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 Second Layer. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Halsall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Associates,
Nik Kershaw,
The Stooges,
Ultravox,
Country Teasers,
Donny Hathaway,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gichy Dan,
Slick Rick,
Warren Ellis,
Malaria!,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Pop Group,
Khruangbin,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Barclay James Harvest,
Iggy Pop,
Barry Ungar,
The Kinks,
Pulsallama,
The Mummies,
Eric Dolphy,
James White and The Blacks,
The Durutti Column,
The Happenings,
Michelle Simonal,
Todd Rundgren,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Laurel Aitken,
Audionom,
Crash Course in Science,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ultra Naté,
Black Moon,
X-101,
Royal Trux,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pantaleimon,
The Cramps,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Todd Terry,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Divine Comedy,
Livin' Joy,
Das Ding,
Public Image Ltd.,
Infiniti,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Donald Byrd,
The Monochrome Set,
Television Personalities,
the Soft Cell,
Bobby Byrd,
Jesper Dahlback,
Frankie Knuckles,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Dave Gahan,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Japan,
Procol Harum,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.