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 Tuvalu and from Beijing.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Idris Muhammad to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Jacob Miller. All the underground hits.
All Prince Buster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry Gold Smith,
Grandmaster Flash,
Camberwell Now,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Make Up,
Kayak,
The Raincoats,
Marcia Griffiths,
Main Source,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Henry Cow,
Connie Case,
Supertramp,
Audionom,
Infiniti,
Pantaleimon,
Wally Richardson,
Absolute Body Control,
Kas Product,
Kenny Larkin,
Gabor Szabo,
Cybotron,
One Last Wish,
Todd Rundgren,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Motions,
Nirvana,
The Count Five,
Japan,
The Saints,
Blancmange,
Stockholm Monsters,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Negative Approach,
Mandrill,
Essential Logic,
The Monochrome Set,
Andrew Hill,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Tim Buckley,
Aural Exciters,
Rod Modell,
Sam Rivers,
Pantytec,
Khruangbin,
Michelle Simonal,
Lightning Bolt,
kango's stein massive,
World's Most,
Con Funk Shun,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Real Kids,
The Red Krayola,
Amon Düül,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Country Joe & The Fish,
T. Rex,
Unwound,
Chris & Cosey,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.