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 Micronesia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Move to the electroclash 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 Ralphi Rosario. All the underground hits.
All Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marshall Jefferson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sisters of Mercy,
Brand Nubian,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Shuggie Otis,
Country Teasers,
Bizarre Inc.,
Public Enemy,
Jerry's Kids,
Hoover,
In Retrospect,
Curtis Mayfield,
Matthew Bourne,
Erasure,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Todd Rundgren,
Fela Kuti,
Alice Coltrane,
Yellowson,
Pantytec,
Roxy Music,
Parry Music,
Silicon Teens,
Minny Pops,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Duran Duran,
The Walker Brothers,
Connie Case,
Rosa Yemen,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Isaac Hayes,
Blossom Toes,
Wolf Eyes,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Yaz,
Organ,
Neil Young,
Howard Jones,
Bobby Byrd,
Fugazi,
Moss Icon,
Television,
Ronan,
The Gories,
Schoolly D,
Buzzcocks,
Lower 48,
The Young Rascals,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Quadrant,
Chris Corsano,
Alton Ellis,
PIL,
Peter & Gordon,
Section 25,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Doobie Brothers,
Crime,
Wire,
Pet Shop Boys,
Susan Cadogan,
The Names,
Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland.
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.