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 Saudi Arabia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 marimba 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 Deakin to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All The Doors tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agent Orange 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
The Buckinghams,
Grauzone,
Absolute Body Control,
Liliput,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Clear Light,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
FM Einheit,
The Golliwogs,
Audionom,
The Dirtbombs,
The Grass Roots,
Patti Smith,
Jeff Mills,
Angry Samoans,
Kerri Chandler,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Slackers,
John Holt,
Niagra,
Jesper Dahlback,
Heaven 17,
Kenny Larkin,
Eric Copeland,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Associates,
Marc Almond,
The Birthday Party,
Camberwell Now,
The Pretty Things,
Lebanon Hanover,
Donald Byrd,
Ice-T,
Aaron Thompson,
Fela Kuti,
Mad Mike,
Terry Callier,
Cal Tjader,
Swell Maps,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mantronix,
Tommy Roe,
Duran Duran,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Toni Rubio,
Visage,
ABBA,
Bob Dylan,
Neu!,
The Fortunes,
Lower 48,
Outsiders,
Soul Sonic Force,
Flipper,
Negative Approach,
Bizarre Inc.,
Trumans Water,
Black Moon,
Wire, Wire, Wire, Wire.
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.