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 Honduras and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 Television to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sad Lovers and Giants. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bauhaus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grauzone,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Echospace,
Cybotron,
The Mummies,
Gang of Four,
Bush Tetras,
Kurtis Blow,
The Offenders,
Mantronix,
Duran Duran,
Basic Channel,
Sister Nancy,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rapeman,
Silicon Teens,
Curtis Mayfield,
Davy DMX,
Lower 48,
T.S.O.L.,
Intrusion,
Ten City,
Erykah Badu,
Drexciya,
Jacques Brel,
Mr. Review,
Matthew Halsall,
Alice Coltrane,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Index,
The Selecter,
The Electric Prunes,
Cymande,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Stooges,
Public Image Ltd.,
Thee Headcoats,
John Cale,
Severed Heads,
Schoolly D,
Lightning Bolt,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Dave Clark Five,
Wally Richardson,
Moebius,
Television,
Kayak,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Doobie Brothers,
Massinfluence,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gang Green,
Dave Gahan,
Organ,
Flash Fearless,
PIL,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
the Germs,
Dark Day,
Average White Band,
The Pop Group,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.