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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 Taipei and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 T. Rex to the funk 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 Fort Wilson Riot. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a These Immortal Souls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
LL Cool J,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
New York Dolls,
Davy DMX,
Jerry's Kids,
FM Einheit,
EPMD,
Shoche,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Laurel Aitken,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Joy Division,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sun City Girls,
ABC,
Soul Sonic Force,
Roxy Music,
Audionom,
Josef K,
the Human League,
World's Most,
Gang of Four,
Tres Demented,
the Swans,
The United States of America,
The Remains,
Sugar Minott,
Maleditus Sound,
Jandek,
Fatback Band,
Joe Finger,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bluetip,
Nirvana,
Amon Düül II,
The Beau Brummels,
The Blackbyrds,
Blake Baxter,
The Modern Lovers,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Dave Gahan,
Kayak,
The Names,
Throbbing Gristle,
Max Romeo,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Slits,
The Golliwogs,
Deakin,
Sexual Harrassment,
James Chance & The Contortions,
ABBA,
The Stooges,
Swell Maps,
Lalo Schifrin,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Jacques Brel,
The Misunderstood,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence.
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.