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 Andorra and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Shoche to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Marmalade. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Art Ensemble Of Chicago 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
the Germs,
Bush Tetras,
Aloha Tigers,
Yusef Lateef,
Urselle,
Stetsasonic,
Lightning Bolt,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Doors,
John Lydon,
Derrick Morgan,
Wolf Eyes,
Laurel Aitken,
Wings,
Nico,
Roger Hodgson,
Skarface,
Joey Negro,
The Dirtbombs,
Tres Demented,
Brass Construction,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Unrelated Segments,
Camouflage,
Glambeats Corp.,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Human League,
Marshall Jefferson,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Babytalk,
Scan 7,
Duran Duran,
The Alarm Clocks,
Severed Heads,
John Foxx,
Malaria!,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Main Source,
The Birthday Party,
Derrick May,
Moss Icon,
Funkadelic,
The Kinks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Todd Rundgren,
Josef K,
Pharoah Sanders,
Deakin,
The Shadows of Knight,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sun Ra,
Gerry Rafferty,
Jeff Lynne,
Minny Pops,
Slave,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kerri Chandler,
Audionom,
Echospace, Echospace, Echospace, Echospace.
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.