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 Tunisia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Quadrant to the rap 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 The Count Five. All the underground hits.
All Aloha Tigers 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 jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
Alton Ellis,
the Soft Cell,
Kas Product,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Human League,
The Star Department,
Icehouse,
a-ha,
Average White Band,
Niagra,
Scion,
Absolute Body Control,
Deadbeat,
The Count Five,
Agitation Free,
Peter and Kerry,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
John Lydon,
Glenn Branca,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Kool Moe Dee,
U.S. Maple,
Hoover,
Ponytail,
Bootsy Collins,
Magma,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Sonics,
Rhythm & Sound,
Black Flag,
Rosa Yemen,
Swell Maps,
Anakelly,
Neil Young,
Nick Fraelich,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Brick,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
kango's stein massive,
Davy DMX,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Drive Like Jehu,
Fat Boys,
Cybotron,
Pantaleimon,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Trojans,
The Victims,
Rod Modell,
Cluster,
Radiopuhelimet,
Audionom,
Livin' Joy,
Monolake,
The Dave Clark Five,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Searchers,
Soul II Soul,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sandy B,
Gang Green,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.