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 Tonga and from Hong Kong.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 clarinet 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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 the Normal. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Japan,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Dawn Penn,
The Pop Group,
The Star Department,
Chris & Cosey,
New Age Steppers,
Scan 7,
The Black Dice,
John Lydon,
Delon & Dalcan,
Von Mondo,
The Slackers,
Inner City,
Surgeon,
Patti Smith,
Kaleidoscope,
Rakim,
Interpol,
Dorothy Ashby,
Fela Kuti,
A Certain Ratio,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Kenny Larkin,
Blake Baxter,
Brick,
Cluster,
Pulsallama,
Loose Ends,
The Monks,
Marc Almond,
Piero Umiliani,
Blancmange,
The Trojans,
Robert Hood,
The J.B.'s,
The Knickerbockers,
Black Sheep,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Neil Young,
Marcia Griffiths,
Kevin Saunderson,
Michelle Simonal,
Chris Corsano,
Warren Ellis,
Moby Grape,
Marmalade,
Brand Nubian,
Sex Pistols,
Audionom,
Gabor Szabo,
Susan Cadogan,
Ultra Naté,
Cybotron,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Oneida,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rekid,
The Dirtbombs,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.