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 Namibia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 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 Soul II Soul 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 West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. All the underground hits.
All Maleditus Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Raincoats 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funky Four + One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
The Tremeloes,
Eurythmics,
Youth Brigade,
Harry Pussy,
Mark Hollis,
Pet Shop Boys,
Joey Negro,
In Retrospect,
China Crisis,
The Monks,
Shuggie Otis,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Robert Hood,
Roxette,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Brass Construction,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Cameo,
Slave,
Deepchord,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Oblivians,
Mars,
Crispian St. Peters,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Wire,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Misunderstood,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Reuben Wilson,
Echospace,
The Move,
Skarface,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Kas Product,
Bauhaus,
Mary Jane Girls,
OOIOO,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Fugs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Isaac Hayes,
MDC,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Barrington Levy,
Joe Smooth,
Quando Quango,
Half Japanese,
Soft Machine,
Chris Corsano,
Animal Collective,
Black Pus,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
48th St. Collective,
Warsaw,
Radiopuhelimet,
ABC,
The Standells,
Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack.
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.