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 South Africa and from Manchester.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Marmalade to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Thompson Twins. All the underground hits.
All Rod Modell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
Drive Like Jehu,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eli Mardock,
The Shadows of Knight,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Maleditus Sound,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lee Hazlewood,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Quando Quango,
Easy Going,
Lyres,
Parry Music,
Tubeway Army,
Ultimate Spinach,
Scion,
Shuggie Otis,
Rhythm & Sound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marvin Gaye,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Gap Band,
Mark Hollis,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Flash Fearless,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Techniques,
Cybotron,
Dead Boys,
Fat Boys,
The Smoke,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Desert Stars,
Lou Christie,
The Walker Brothers,
The Monks,
Peter and Kerry,
Black Flag,
The Dead C,
James White and The Blacks,
Wire,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kerrie Biddell,
Visage,
Public Enemy,
Tom Boy,
These Immortal Souls,
Alphaville,
Alice Coltrane,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Amazonics,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Frankie Knuckles,
Young Marble Giants,
Soft Cell,
Piero Umiliani,
Bang On A Can,
Bobby Byrd,
James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions.
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.