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 Netherlands and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the marimba 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 Black Moon to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Brick. All the underground hits.
All Nik Kershaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
Yellowson,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bobby Womack,
Bill Wells,
Black Flag,
The Doors,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Jacques Brel,
Sam Rivers,
Black Bananas,
Laurel Aitken,
Ken Boothe,
Brand Nubian,
Babytalk,
Liliput,
Monolake,
Harpers Bizarre,
Royal Trux,
R.M.O.,
Deadbeat,
Unwound,
Pantaleimon,
Organ,
The Searchers,
Letta Mbulu,
James White and The Blacks,
The Red Krayola,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
AZ,
cv313,
The Vogues,
John Lydon,
Reuben Wilson,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Martian,
Kerrie Biddell,
Pagans,
Fear,
The Offenders,
The Mummies,
Eddi Front,
The Blackbyrds,
Cluster,
Freddie Wadling,
New Order,
Eve St. Jones,
Derrick May,
Delon & Dalcan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Roy Ayers,
Qualms,
Erykah Badu,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Prince Buster,
Bronski Beat,
Ultimate Spinach,
Pylon,
Deakin,
The Victims,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane.
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.