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 Denmark and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 rhodes 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 Bobby Womack to the funk 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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Duran Duran tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flipper record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kevin Saunderson,
Marcia Griffiths,
Rakim,
Model 500,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
PIL,
Faust,
Glenn Branca,
Nation of Ulysses,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Soul II Soul,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Saccharine Trust,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Dead Boys,
Sparks,
Skarface,
Nils Olav,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ralphi Rosario,
Pulsallama,
Radio Birdman,
Simply Red,
The Cure,
Scion,
Ultravox,
The Kinks,
Unrelated Segments,
The Gun Club,
Camouflage,
David McCallum,
The Electric Prunes,
Marshall Jefferson,
Goldenarms,
Von Mondo,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lyres,
Masters at Work,
The New Christs,
Bang On A Can,
Heaven 17,
Throbbing Gristle,
Rod Modell,
Swans,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Magma,
Talk Talk,
Neu!,
Josef K,
Adolescents,
Kaleidoscope,
The Pop Group,
Massinfluence,
Judy Mowatt,
Nas,
Black Sheep,
Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant.
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.