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 Malaysia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 guitar 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 the Sonics to the dance 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 The Sound. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kurtis Blow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Can 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?
Patti Smith,
Bronski Beat,
The American Breed,
Cameo,
Susan Cadogan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Slick Rick,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kurtis Blow,
Dark Day,
The Moody Blues,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Girls At Our Best!,
Roy Ayers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sandy B,
Tomorrow,
Tim Buckley,
The Divine Comedy,
La Düsseldorf,
Swans,
Ornette Coleman,
The Happenings,
the Human League,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Inner City,
Surgeon,
Yellowson,
Visage,
Outsiders,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gang Gang Dance,
Popol Vuh,
Byron Stingily,
Quantec,
Q65,
Reagan Youth,
Boz Scaggs,
Infiniti,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Quadrant,
Black Moon,
Albert Ayler,
Barclay James Harvest,
Scientists,
Johnny Osbourne,
Man Eating Sloth,
Matthew Halsall,
Gabor Szabo,
UT,
Lou Christie,
Amazonics,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Stereo Dub,
MC5,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Television,
Camberwell Now,
Liliput,
The Wake, The Wake, The Wake, The Wake.
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.