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 Mozambique and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Iggy Pop to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All John Foxx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord 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?
Accadde A,
Rekid,
LL Cool J,
The Wake,
Pet Shop Boys,
Jeff Mills,
Nation of Ulysses,
Talk Talk,
Moby Grape,
Gong,
Boogie Down Productions,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Cal Tjader,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Don Cherry,
The Invisible,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Motions,
The American Breed,
Pierre Henry,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Young Rascals,
Andrew Hill,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Visage,
The Doobie Brothers,
Deakin,
Bobby Womack,
Buzzcocks,
The Fall,
Swell Maps,
The Pop Group,
Alison Limerick,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Oneida,
Kayak,
Easy Going,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Monochrome Set,
Soulsonic Force,
Wings,
Oblivians,
EPMD,
Second Layer,
10cc,
Roy Ayers,
Faraquet,
PIL,
Pussy Galore,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Names,
Lucky Dragons,
Monks,
cv313,
The Happenings,
Bobby Byrd,
The Remains,
Blancmange,
Jerry's Kids,
The Last Poets,
Moss Icon,
Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill.
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.