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 Costa Rica and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Deepchord to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. All the underground hits.
All Ash Ra Tempel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maurizio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Niagra,
Letta Mbulu,
The Stooges,
Sound Behaviour,
Eurythmics,
Alison Limerick,
David Axelrod,
These Immortal Souls,
DNA,
Television Personalities,
LL Cool J,
Silicon Teens,
Lakeside,
Eli Mardock,
Subhumans,
Freddie Wadling,
Royal Trux,
Drexciya,
Funky Four + One,
Excepter,
The Associates,
The Names,
The Fuzztones,
Sun Ra,
Swell Maps,
Fear,
Joyce Sims,
Aural Exciters,
New Order,
Archie Shepp,
Easy Going,
Simply Red,
Soulsonic Force,
Roxette,
The Dirtbombs,
Peter and Kerry,
F. McDonald,
Negative Approach,
Lindisfarne,
ABBA,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Soft Cell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dual Sessions,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Matthew Halsall,
Fugazi,
Gichy Dan,
Ludus,
Marc Almond,
In Retrospect,
Kas Product,
DJ Style,
CMW,
The Busters,
Monks,
Joy Division,
a-ha,
Eden Ahbez,
T. Rex,
Technova, Technova, Technova, Technova.
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.