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 Indonesia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Aural Exciters to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fear 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Babytalk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
Tom Boy,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Monochrome Set,
Young Marble Giants,
Godley & Creme,
the Bar-Kays,
Lucky Dragons,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Model 500,
Skaos,
Depeche Mode,
Angry Samoans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Babytalk,
Liliput,
Donny Hathaway,
Black Flag,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Carl Craig,
Eve St. Jones,
Bad Manners,
Darondo,
The Music Machine,
Tommy Roe,
Pharoah Sanders,
John Coltrane,
Nik Kershaw,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Aloha Tigers,
Moebius,
Anthony Braxton,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Dual Sessions,
Johnny Clarke,
Camouflage,
The Move,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Harmonia,
Sound Behaviour,
Hasil Adkins,
X-101,
Dave Gahan,
Quando Quango,
X-Ray Spex,
Q and Not U,
Monks,
Deadbeat,
Judy Mowatt,
Marine Girls,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lungfish,
Dead Boys,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
R.M.O.,
Electric Prunes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Von Mondo,
Bush Tetras,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Mantronix,
Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma.
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.