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 Mauritania and from Bremen.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the organ 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 The Beau Brummels to the electroclash 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 Eric B and Rakim. All the underground hits.
All Lakeside tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amazonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Buckinghams,
Byron Stingily,
Black Moon,
Saccharine Trust,
Jeff Lynne,
Excepter,
Toni Rubio,
Gong,
Aaron Thompson,
Piero Umiliani,
Magazine,
Mantronix,
Funky Four + One,
Pussy Galore,
Harry Pussy,
The Five Americans,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Moody Blues,
Joensuu 1685,
Marine Girls,
Donny Hathaway,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
This Heat,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Arthur Verocai,
Harmonia,
Idris Muhammad,
X-101,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Anthony Braxton,
Bill Near,
Jandek,
Delta 5,
Anakelly,
The Martian,
Au Pairs,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bad Manners,
Warsaw,
Gabor Szabo,
Livin' Joy,
Organ,
The Remains,
Echospace,
Kevin Saunderson,
Public Enemy,
Cameo,
Talk Talk,
Radiopuhelimet,
Theoretical Girls,
Alton Ellis,
The Stooges,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
the Human League,
Boredoms,
Girls At Our Best!,
Soul II Soul,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Nico,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins.
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.