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 Iran and from Madrid.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the oboe 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 Deepchord to the techno 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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All Letta Mbulu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nils Olav,
Bob Dylan,
Jerry's Kids,
Intrusion,
Stetsasonic,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
John Holt,
The Durutti Column,
Spandau Ballet,
Echospace,
The Kinks,
Donny Hathaway,
Supertramp,
Quantec,
The Busters,
Todd Terry,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Youth Brigade,
Maleditus Sound,
Traffic Nightmare,
Kas Product,
Rapeman,
Blancmange,
The Stooges,
the Slits,
Zero Boys,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Litter,
Amon Düül,
Half Japanese,
Radio Birdman,
Simply Red,
D'Angelo,
Lucky Dragons,
The Divine Comedy,
Idris Muhammad,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jeff Mills,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Banda Bassotti,
The Velvet Underground,
Graham Central Station,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Rosa Yemen,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Chris Corsano,
The Walker Brothers,
Scan 7,
Yellowson,
The Pop Group,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lalo Schifrin,
Symarip,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Amon Düül II,
Aural Exciters,
Ponytail,
Suburban Knight,
Deadbeat,
Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims.
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.