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 Nigeria and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Philadelphia.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 MDC to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Vogues. All the underground hits.
All Trumans Water tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skarface 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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?
Lower 48,
Funkadelic,
Ice-T,
Wire,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Fela Kuti,
Johnny Osbourne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Wings,
The Fall,
Reagan Youth,
Danielle Patucci,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
David McCallum,
Moebius,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Standells,
Flash Fearless,
Barbara Tucker,
Yellowson,
Echospace,
T. Rex,
Warren Ellis,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Al Stewart,
Hoover,
Matthew Halsall,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Letta Mbulu,
David Axelrod,
June of 44,
Cameo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Iggy Pop,
Lyres,
Youth Brigade,
Lucky Dragons,
Mantronix,
Arcadia,
Panda Bear,
Faust,
Joy Division,
The Fortunes,
Sun Ra,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
the Normal,
Soft Cell,
La Düsseldorf,
Livin' Joy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Alison Limerick,
Adolescents,
JFA,
Lalo Schifrin,
Nik Kershaw,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
CMW, CMW, CMW, CMW.
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.