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 Cuba and from Portland.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Traffic Nightmare to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Malaria!. All the underground hits.
All Maleditus Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cymande record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum 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?
Scientists,
The Gap Band,
Jesper Dahlback,
Cluster,
Max Romeo,
the Soft Cell,
Anakelly,
Babytalk,
Terry Callier,
Alison Limerick,
The Last Poets,
Godley & Creme,
Can,
Main Source,
Monolake,
Bush Tetras,
Agent Orange,
John Cale,
Erykah Badu,
The Associates,
Radio Birdman,
Royal Trux,
Hot Snakes,
Blossom Toes,
Easy Going,
Lalo Schifrin,
Y Pants,
T.S.O.L.,
Marshall Jefferson,
Flipper,
Janne Schatter,
The Motions,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Neu!,
Visage,
Aswad,
The Victims,
Sandy B,
Be Bop Deluxe,
New Age Steppers,
Eric Copeland,
Malaria!,
F. McDonald,
David Bowie,
Danielle Patucci,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Alice Coltrane,
Q and Not U,
Masters at Work,
China Crisis,
The Young Rascals,
Wasted Youth,
Moebius,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Eli Mardock,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Eden Ahbez,
Ohio Players,
Bootsy Collins,
Gerry Rafferty,
Motorama,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Scott Walker,
Silicon Teens,
Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills.
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.