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 Russia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Stockholm.
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 808 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 CMW to the punk 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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All Scientists tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Desert Stars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Fela Kuti,
DNA,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Cal Tjader,
Das Ding,
Hasil Adkins,
The Fuzztones,
The Cure,
Skaos,
U.S. Maple,
Matthew Halsall,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Althea and Donna,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Wake,
Sandy B,
China Crisis,
Junior Murvin,
Warsaw,
Pierre Henry,
Inner City,
Bill Wells,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
This Heat,
Kenny Larkin,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Japan,
X-101,
The Motions,
MDC,
Glambeats Corp.,
Brick,
Moby Grape,
Harpers Bizarre,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Excepter,
The Music Machine,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Half Japanese,
Matthew Bourne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
X-102,
The New Christs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Boredoms,
Chrome,
Bad Manners,
Thompson Twins,
The Slits,
Soul II Soul,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Hoover,
Idris Muhammad,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Yaz,
The Vogues,
The American Breed,
Robert Görl,
Ituana,
Lyres,
Gang Starr, Gang Starr, Gang Starr, Gang Starr.
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.