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 Mauritius and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 synthesizer 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 Marcia Griffiths to the rap 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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultramagnetic MC's record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mo-Dettes,
Robert Wyatt,
kango's stein massive,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Fat Boys,
Eden Ahbez,
Banda Bassotti,
Ten City,
Lou Reed,
Rod Modell,
Maurizio,
the Association,
Arthur Verocai,
Mantronix,
Fluxion,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Todd Terry,
Ronan,
Second Layer,
Janne Schatter,
LL Cool J,
AZ,
The Mojo Men,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sister Nancy,
Soul Sonic Force,
Qualms,
Drexciya,
Royal Trux,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bobby Sherman,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
X-Ray Spex,
Kevin Saunderson,
Letta Mbulu,
8 Eyed Spy,
Arcadia,
Wally Richardson,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Robert Görl,
The Sonics,
These Immortal Souls,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Godley & Creme,
Aloha Tigers,
Model 500,
cv313,
Massinfluence,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Eddi Front,
Zapp,
Thompson Twins,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gang Gang Dance,
10cc,
The Tremeloes,
CMW,
Ohio Players,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.