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 Russia and from Taipei.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Music Machine to the disco 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 the Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dawn Penn record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cameo,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
E-Dancer,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Busters,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lindisfarne,
Oblivians,
Amon Düül,
Magma,
Q and Not U,
The Human League,
Deepchord,
Eurythmics,
Fela Kuti,
Supertramp,
Siglo XX,
Quando Quango,
The Misunderstood,
The Angels of Light,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Dave Gahan,
The Pop Group,
The Raincoats,
JFA,
Loose Ends,
Yusef Lateef,
Country Teasers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Knickerbockers,
48th St. Collective,
Derrick Morgan,
Ultimate Spinach,
Barrington Levy,
Bad Manners,
the Soft Cell,
John Coltrane,
Gabor Szabo,
Sam Rivers,
kango's stein massive,
LL Cool J,
Section 25,
Can,
X-101,
Graham Central Station,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Franke,
Jimmy McGriff,
Quantec,
Radiohead,
Piero Umiliani,
Bluetip,
The Mummies,
Television,
Chris & Cosey,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
John Lydon,
The Litter,
ABC,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Echospace,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.