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 Kosovo and from Lille.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Magma to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Section 25. All the underground hits.
All Fatback Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
48th St. Collective,
Bauhaus,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lindisfarne,
Black Sheep,
Sparks,
Barclay James Harvest,
UT,
Arab on Radar,
The Buckinghams,
Goldenarms,
Laurel Aitken,
Fugazi,
John Cale,
K-Klass,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Delta 5,
Hoover,
Tommy Roe,
Scan 7,
Bush Tetras,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Man Parrish,
Public Image Ltd.,
Crispian St. Peters,
Donny Hathaway,
the Sonics,
Pole,
Stiv Bators,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Skriet,
Gang Green,
ABC,
John Lydon,
Mad Mike,
The Remains,
Johnny Clarke,
Avey Tare,
Sonny Sharrock,
PIL,
Roger Hodgson,
Soft Machine,
Cluster,
Gong,
Glambeats Corp.,
a-ha,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Scion,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Peter & Gordon,
James White and The Blacks,
Robert Wyatt,
Isaac Hayes,
John Foxx,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
H. Thieme,
Average White Band,
Alison Limerick,
Ice-T,
MDC,
The Vogues,
Bobby Womack,
Sun City Girls,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.