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 Chile and from Portland.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Marcia Griffiths 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Selecter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Soul II Soul,
Babytalk,
Matthew Halsall,
Soft Machine,
Neil Young,
Dave Gahan,
the Sonics,
KRS-One,
Bang On A Can,
The Vogues,
Alice Coltrane,
MC5,
Derrick Morgan,
Harmonia,
The Cramps,
Dawn Penn,
Dual Sessions,
Marvin Gaye,
Fela Kuti,
Danielle Patucci,
The Slits,
Ultra Naté,
Nik Kershaw,
Oblivians,
The Buckinghams,
Brass Construction,
Marmalade,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Black Pus,
Deepchord,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
48th St. Collective,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Radio Birdman,
Brand Nubian,
Silicon Teens,
The Cure,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Jeff Mills,
Depeche Mode,
The Velvet Underground,
Moby Grape,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Echospace,
Soft Cell,
Organ,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Malaria!,
Rapeman,
Make Up,
Massinfluence,
The Fall,
Leonard Cohen,
The Fire Engines,
Radiohead,
Blake Baxter,
Rufus Thomas,
T.S.O.L.,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight.
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.