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 Malta and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Tomorrow to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Dark Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gastr Del Sol 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Tears for Fears,
F. McDonald,
Eric Copeland,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Tommy Roe,
Grauzone,
China Crisis,
Deakin,
La Düsseldorf,
Jawbox,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Fortunes,
Outsiders,
Chris Corsano,
Rites of Spring,
Kenny Larkin,
Frankie Knuckles,
Silicon Teens,
The Red Krayola,
The United States of America,
The Zeros,
Half Japanese,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Dead C,
Gang of Four,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Negative Approach,
The Fall,
The Doors,
Interpol,
Michelle Simonal,
Roxette,
James White and The Blacks,
Public Enemy,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Neon Judgement,
Jimmy McGriff,
Warsaw,
Gichy Dan,
Terrestrial Tones,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Laurel Aitken,
The Human League,
Isaac Hayes,
Junior Murvin,
Monks,
Blake Baxter,
The Star Department,
Boredoms,
JFA,
Bobby Hutcherson,
T. Rex,
Das Ding,
10cc,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eddi Front,
Bootsy Collins,
Icehouse, Icehouse, Icehouse, Icehouse.
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.