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 Cameroon and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Holger Czukay 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse 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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Slick Rick,
Excepter,
Visage,
Los Fastidios,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Kerrie Biddell,
Massinfluence,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Blackbyrds,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bobby Hutcherson,
These Immortal Souls,
Severed Heads,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sound Behaviour,
World's Most,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Kevin Saunderson,
Q and Not U,
The New Christs,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Porter Ricks,
Howard Jones,
Ronnie Foster,
China Crisis,
Icehouse,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Eric B and Rakim,
Soft Cell,
DJ Style,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
X-Ray Spex,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Index,
Nik Kershaw,
Tres Demented,
Drive Like Jehu,
Metal Thangz,
Con Funk Shun,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Popol Vuh,
Bill Wells,
Mr. Review,
Judy Mowatt,
Hoover,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Morten Harket,
Lou Christie,
Eddi Front,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ossler,
Scientists,
Crooked Eye,
R.M.O.,
Warren Ellis,
Rotary Connection,
Pere Ubu,
Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry.
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.