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 Haiti and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Dave Gahan to the disco 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 Nils Olav. All the underground hits.
All Alphaville tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly 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 spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a AZ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Five Americans,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Velvet Underground,
Tres Demented,
In Retrospect,
CMW,
Sex Pistols,
The Durutti Column,
The Star Department,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Standells,
Main Source,
the Slits,
The Busters,
The Martian,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Kinks,
The Fortunes,
Wolf Eyes,
Joyce Sims,
Dual Sessions,
Ludus,
Lalo Schifrin,
Royal Trux,
The Moody Blues,
The Sonics,
Erykah Badu,
The Monochrome Set,
Donny Hathaway,
Eric Dolphy,
Jeff Lynne,
Negative Approach,
Cameo,
Icehouse,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Theoretical Girls,
Massinfluence,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Wally Richardson,
Fad Gadget,
Carl Craig,
Smog,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Surgeon,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Crispy Ambulance,
LL Cool J,
cv313,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pere Ubu,
Ituana,
Eli Mardock,
Junior Murvin,
Duran Duran,
Intrusion,
Juan Atkins,
The Gun Club,
New Age Steppers,
Organ,
Angry Samoans,
Joy Division,
Liliput,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.