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 Romania and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Pet Shop Boys to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
The Red Krayola,
The Offenders,
Moss Icon,
Quantec,
Neu!,
Glenn Branca,
Swell Maps,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sex Pistols,
Aural Exciters,
Nick Fraelich,
Rekid,
Amon Düül II,
Con Funk Shun,
Pussy Galore,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Boogie Down Productions,
Depeche Mode,
Kaleidoscope,
The Invisible,
E-Dancer,
Matthew Bourne,
Basic Channel,
Adolescents,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lungfish,
Accadde A,
Bronski Beat,
The Zeros,
T.S.O.L.,
T. Rex,
Gang of Four,
Colin Newman,
the Human League,
Loose Ends,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Mojo Men,
Chris & Cosey,
Easy Going,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Leaves,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gichy Dan,
ABC,
Sexual Harrassment,
X-102,
The Real Kids,
The Standells,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Hoover,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gastr Del Sol,
Visage,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Reuben Wilson,
Byron Stingily,
Nation of Ulysses,
Underground Resistance,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo.
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.