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 Seychelles and from Johannesburg.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 808 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 Todd Terry to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Be Bop Deluxe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every A Certain Ratio 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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?
Joyce Sims,
Alphaville,
EPMD,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Yaz,
John Lydon,
Symarip,
Jeff Mills,
Chrome,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sällskapet,
Drive Like Jehu,
Mandrill,
Neu!,
Rhythm & Sound,
Maleditus Sound,
Country Teasers,
Marine Girls,
The Moody Blues,
Rosa Yemen,
Darondo,
Minutemen,
Wings,
The Residents,
Agent Orange,
The Slits,
Pagans,
Arthur Verocai,
Niagra,
Television Personalities,
Fatback Band,
Eurythmics,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pantaleimon,
Scientists,
Swell Maps,
Reuben Wilson,
LL Cool J,
Japan,
Procol Harum,
Sixth Finger,
World's Most,
D'Angelo,
Isaac Hayes,
kango's stein massive,
Rufus Thomas,
Grauzone,
Gastr Del Sol,
Michelle Simonal,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Livin' Joy,
Jesper Dahlback,
Royal Trux,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Kerrie Biddell,
Roger Hodgson,
Rites of Spring,
Robert Wyatt,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Altered Images,
A Certain Ratio,
The Count Five,
Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless.
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.