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 Moldova and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 D'Angelo to the funk 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 Joe Finger. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Lydon 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Basic Channel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stiv Bators,
John Coltrane,
Suburban Knight,
Lebanon Hanover,
Joe Finger,
Sister Nancy,
the Sonics,
The Moleskins,
Simply Red,
Unwound,
Andrew Hill,
Donald Byrd,
Tim Buckley,
Throbbing Gristle,
Japan,
Gang Starr,
Kool Moe Dee,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
It's A Beautiful Day,
the Slits,
Althea and Donna,
Jimmy McGriff,
Nick Fraelich,
Zero Boys,
Gong,
Brass Construction,
PIL,
Toni Rubio,
Khruangbin,
Sonic Youth,
Alison Limerick,
The Searchers,
Moss Icon,
OOIOO,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Country Joe & The Fish,
X-Ray Spex,
World's Most,
Das Ding,
Von Mondo,
Audionom,
Mantronix,
Tres Demented,
Brothers Johnson,
Neu!,
Freddie Wadling,
Country Teasers,
Isaac Hayes,
Bronski Beat,
Grandmaster Flash,
Circle Jerks,
Television Personalities,
Charles Mingus,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Joy Division,
Rufus Thomas,
Cluster,
Model 500,
Swans,
The Five Americans,
Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound.
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.