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 Uganda and from Stockholm.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Aural Exciters to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sight & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Association 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?
Quantec,
Dave Gahan,
Jeff Lynne,
Deepchord,
Gregory Isaacs,
Essential Logic,
Oneida,
The Doors,
Dennis Brown,
Tommy Roe,
Lou Christie,
Television Personalities,
Public Enemy,
Organ,
Index,
Hasil Adkins,
Trumans Water,
Fad Gadget,
John Foxx,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Stetsasonic,
Lalann,
Eden Ahbez,
JFA,
Bauhaus,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Kinks,
Junior Murvin,
Icehouse,
Judy Mowatt,
Throbbing Gristle,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Malaria!,
Motorama,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Chris Corsano,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Dark Day,
Grandmaster Flash,
Jesper Dahlback,
Neil Young,
The Fugs,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Beau Brummels,
The Smiths,
Main Source,
Vainqueur,
Matthew Halsall,
John Holt,
Dorothy Ashby,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
the Slits,
Bobby Womack,
Patti Smith,
Severed Heads,
The Litter,
Technova,
Robert Wyatt,
Amon Düül,
Unwound,
Swans,
Avey Tare,
Joe Smooth,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.