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 Tajikistan and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Yellowson to the techno 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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All The Golliwogs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Man Eating Sloth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
ABC,
Circle Jerks,
Joy Division,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Fall,
Reuben Wilson,
Peter & Gordon,
Suburban Knight,
Davy DMX,
Erykah Badu,
Visage,
Faust,
Cybotron,
Todd Rundgren,
Surgeon,
Gang Green,
Wally Richardson,
Kayak,
Pierre Henry,
Monolake,
The Blues Magoos,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Monochrome Set,
Marine Girls,
Gang Starr,
Magazine,
The Sound,
Gichy Dan,
The Dirtbombs,
Todd Terry,
UT,
Swell Maps,
Heaven 17,
MDC,
DJ Style,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lou Reed,
Spandau Ballet,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Goldenarms,
Gil Scott Heron,
Accadde A,
PIL,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Seeds,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Radiohead,
Funky Four + One,
H. Thieme,
Nick Fraelich,
The Invisible,
Byron Stingily,
Jawbox,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Faraquet,
Freddie Wadling,
Zapp, Zapp, Zapp, Zapp.
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.