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 Malawi and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Mighty Diamonds to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Jeru the Damaja. All the underground hits.
All The Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gong record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dawn Penn record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
The Buckinghams,
Cymande,
Alphaville,
Ludus,
Adolescents,
Thee Headcoats,
Barclay James Harvest,
La Düsseldorf,
Crispian St. Peters,
Roxy Music,
PIL,
The Skatalites,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Soul Sonic Force,
Todd Terry,
Ponytail,
Prince Buster,
Livin' Joy,
U.S. Maple,
Jeff Mills,
The Litter,
The Durutti Column,
Bill Near,
Scan 7,
Lakeside,
Boredoms,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Warsaw,
The Gories,
June Days,
The United States of America,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kool Moe Dee,
Fear,
Mr. Review,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Flipper,
T. Rex,
Amazonics,
Al Stewart,
Cecil Taylor,
The Star Department,
The Cowsills,
Kurtis Blow,
The Music Machine,
Crash Course in Science,
Funky Four + One,
This Heat,
Funkadelic,
Ultra Naté,
Dark Day,
Babytalk,
The Flesh Eaters,
Albert Ayler,
Camberwell Now,
Howard Jones,
CMW,
Ohio Players,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.