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 Vietnam and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Searchers to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ajijia Myrayebe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a synthesizer 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 chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Standells,
Warren Ellis,
Scientists,
The Vogues,
John Holt,
Easy Going,
The Move,
Gang of Four,
Rakim,
Carl Craig,
B.T. Express,
Marine Girls,
Clear Light,
OOIOO,
Newcleus,
Model 500,
Drexciya,
The Leaves,
The Barracudas,
Sonny Sharrock,
John Cale,
Girls At Our Best!,
Deakin,
Groovy Waters,
Colin Newman,
Rapeman,
The Knickerbockers,
48th St. Collective,
The Kinks,
the Fania All-Stars,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Joensuu 1685,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Rotary Connection,
Deepchord,
JFA,
The Sound,
Panda Bear,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
the Bar-Kays,
Whodini,
Jimmy McGriff,
Moss Icon,
Barrington Levy,
Stiv Bators,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Yazoo,
Cameo,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Angels of Light,
Metal Thangz,
New York Dolls,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Franke,
Lakeside,
The Skatalites,
Simply Red,
Joe Finger,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.