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 Bhutan and from Halifax.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 theremin 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 Von Mondo to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 It's A Beautiful Day. All the underground hits.
All Nation of Ulysses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delon & Dalcan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cameo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Au Pairs,
Japan,
Gang Gang Dance,
Amon Düül II,
These Immortal Souls,
Yusef Lateef,
Gang of Four,
Nas,
Gang Green,
JFA,
Unrelated Segments,
The Knickerbockers,
Index,
Grauzone,
Quadrant,
Basic Channel,
La Düsseldorf,
Moss Icon,
Ludus,
Robert Wyatt,
Kool Moe Dee,
Fatback Band,
Colin Newman,
Ultravox,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Theoretical Girls,
Fad Gadget,
The Black Dice,
Michelle Simonal,
Gang Starr,
Thee Headcoats,
Sugar Minott,
Icehouse,
Gabor Szabo,
Chrome,
The Gun Club,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Silicon Teens,
Anakelly,
Pole,
Cybotron,
Harpers Bizarre,
Dennis Brown,
Juan Atkins,
Subhumans,
The J.B.'s,
Motorama,
China Crisis,
Television,
June of 44,
DJ Style,
Eurythmics,
Infiniti,
The Busters,
Rites of Spring,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Pop Group,
The Barracudas,
The Fortunes,
Traffic Nightmare,
Talk Talk,
Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd.
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.