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 Qatar and from Bologna.
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 Cairo and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sunsets and Hearts to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris & Cosey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
David Bowie,
June of 44,
Bootsy Collins,
Davy DMX,
Joe Smooth,
Dorothy Ashby,
Visage,
Outsiders,
Glambeats Corp.,
Mission of Burma,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Scientists,
the Normal,
Dave Gahan,
Los Fastidios,
Kevin Saunderson,
Oneida,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Robert Görl,
Boredoms,
Agent Orange,
The Neon Judgement,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rufus Thomas,
Morten Harket,
Barry Ungar,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Eric Copeland,
Marvin Gaye,
Mad Mike,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kenny Larkin,
Swans,
Wings,
DJ Sneak,
Minny Pops,
Lucky Dragons,
Minor Threat,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Make Up,
Andrew Hill,
Zapp,
Smog,
Groovy Waters,
Janne Schatter,
B.T. Express,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Tim Buckley,
Bluetip,
Leonard Cohen,
Amazonics,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cameo,
kango's stein massive,
Brass Construction,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Iggy Pop,
K-Klass,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.