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 India and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 guitar 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 Yaz to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tim Buckley record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sex Pistols record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
Babytalk,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Althea and Donna,
JFA,
Eden Ahbez,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Gap Band,
David Axelrod,
The J.B.'s,
Parry Music,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sarah Menescal,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
the Normal,
Lindisfarne,
Jawbox,
Aswad,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Blossom Toes,
Qualms,
K-Klass,
Vladislav Delay,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sugar Minott,
Goldenarms,
Malaria!,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Eric Copeland,
Groovy Waters,
Barbara Tucker,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Crash Course in Science,
Sällskapet,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Modern Lovers,
Scratch Acid,
Barrington Levy,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lightning Bolt,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
New Order,
Pole,
Negative Approach,
Masters at Work,
Ohio Players,
Lucky Dragons,
The Leaves,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bronski Beat,
The Cure,
Wolf Eyes,
Lalo Schifrin,
Hardrive,
Erykah Badu,
Soulsonic Force,
The Grass Roots,
Sparks,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Dave Clark Five,
Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose.
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.