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 Ivory Coast and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Glasgow.
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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the funk 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 The Grass Roots. All the underground hits.
All Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fluxion,
Aaron Thompson,
DJ Style,
Oblivians,
Harmonia,
China Crisis,
Joy Division,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Parry Music,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Wally Richardson,
Soul Sonic Force,
Heaven 17,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Unrelated Segments,
Crime,
Country Teasers,
Ossler,
Grauzone,
Yellowson,
Minutemen,
Whodini,
Essential Logic,
Jandek,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ornette Coleman,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Barrington Levy,
Subhumans,
X-102,
Don Cherry,
The Martian,
Letta Mbulu,
John Lydon,
Stiv Bators,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Robert Görl,
Dawn Penn,
the Soft Cell,
Ultra Naté,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Barracudas,
The Detroit Cobras,
MDC,
These Immortal Souls,
The Saints,
Roxette,
Leonard Cohen,
Camberwell Now,
Donny Hathaway,
The Associates,
Chris & Cosey,
Brand Nubian,
The Flesh Eaters,
Mission of Burma,
Delta 5,
X-101,
Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon.
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.