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 Iceland and from Woodstock.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the theremin 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 Radio Birdman to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Fatback Band. All the underground hits.
All Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ponytail 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bob Dylan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Godley & Creme,
the Soft Cell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Alton Ellis,
Hashim,
The Music Machine,
Derrick May,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Organ,
Byron Stingily,
China Crisis,
Traffic Nightmare,
Boogie Down Productions,
Hot Snakes,
Mission of Burma,
Kurtis Blow,
The Associates,
Roy Ayers,
The Fortunes,
Josef K,
Skriet,
The Beau Brummels,
The Flesh Eaters,
Royal Trux,
Rapeman,
The Young Rascals,
The Moody Blues,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Wake,
Depeche Mode,
Technova,
Kerrie Biddell,
Radiohead,
Gerry Rafferty,
Skaos,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The New Christs,
John Coltrane,
DJ Style,
Stetsasonic,
Juan Atkins,
Model 500,
Main Source,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Marcia Griffiths,
Roxy Music,
Tres Demented,
Das Ding,
Stockholm Monsters,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Easy Going,
Rites of Spring,
Qualms,
Vladislav Delay,
The Victims,
Marshall Jefferson,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Leaves,
Amon Düül,
Wally Richardson,
Y Pants, Y Pants, Y Pants, Y Pants.
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.