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 Benin and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Michael McDonald 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 Sarah Menescal to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Half Japanese tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brand Nubian 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Lou Christie,
Agitation Free,
Rapeman,
Saccharine Trust,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Main Source,
Electric Prunes,
Suburban Knight,
D'Angelo,
Laurel Aitken,
Scion,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Rod Modell,
Black Sheep,
Todd Terry,
the Association,
Pere Ubu,
Fat Boys,
Subhumans,
Visage,
Lyres,
Marine Girls,
Skarface,
the Human League,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
PIL,
The Five Americans,
X-101,
The Invisible,
This Heat,
Silicon Teens,
The Names,
Eric B and Rakim,
Youth Brigade,
The Gories,
Tears for Fears,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Bang On A Can,
K-Klass,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Yusef Lateef,
The Skatalites,
Boogie Down Productions,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Stereo Dub,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Barbara Tucker,
Nas,
Skaos,
Sugar Minott,
The Busters,
The Remains,
The Moody Blues,
ABC,
Black Bananas,
Sonic Youth,
Glenn Branca,
Blake Baxter,
Franke,
Massinfluence,
Oneida, Oneida, Oneida, Oneida.
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.