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 Seychelles and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Reagan Youth to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every OOIOO record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
The Sound,
Cluster,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Siglo XX,
Iggy Pop,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Kas Product,
Neil Young,
Ponytail,
Marshall Jefferson,
Flipper,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Stetsasonic,
Fad Gadget,
Ultra Naté,
The Mummies,
DNA,
Cymande,
Hashim,
Bad Manners,
The Raincoats,
The Fugs,
Smog,
The Index,
Soul II Soul,
Stiv Bators,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Durutti Column,
Nirvana,
Traffic Nightmare,
Anthony Braxton,
Joe Finger,
Jeff Lynne,
U.S. Maple,
Silicon Teens,
Youth Brigade,
Wasted Youth,
Piero Umiliani,
Skaos,
Schoolly D,
Yaz,
Curtis Mayfield,
10cc,
Radiopuhelimet,
World's Most,
Grauzone,
Guru Guru,
Television Personalities,
48th St. Collective,
Minnie Riperton,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Desert Stars,
LL Cool J,
Wire,
Echospace,
Los Fastidios,
Warren Ellis,
Zapp,
Sällskapet,
Dark Day,
New Order,
Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy.
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.