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 Nepal and from Manchester.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Doors to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Sheep 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ice-T record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Qualms,
The Motions,
The Monks,
The Neon Judgement,
Colin Newman,
David McCallum,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Black Sheep,
Niagra,
Scratch Acid,
Avey Tare,
Godley & Creme,
Blake Baxter,
a-ha,
Ice-T,
Lalann,
Sun Ra,
Essential Logic,
KRS-One,
The Pretty Things,
EPMD,
ABBA,
Ronan,
Public Image Ltd.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Al Stewart,
Procol Harum,
The United States of America,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Negative Approach,
Alison Limerick,
Monolake,
Ken Boothe,
A Flock of Seagulls,
the Soft Cell,
Joyce Sims,
The Young Rascals,
8 Eyed Spy,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lebanon Hanover,
Fad Gadget,
Cymande,
Scott Walker,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
cv313,
Slick Rick,
Howard Jones,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Moss Icon,
Black Bananas,
John Foxx,
The Evens,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
John Lydon,
Excepter,
the Bar-Kays,
Bad Manners,
Crispian St. Peters,
Dennis Brown,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Gil Scott Heron,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Remains, The Remains, The Remains, The Remains.
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.