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 Belarus and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in 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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Mantronix to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sound. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oblivians record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Metal Thangz,
Sound Behaviour,
Oblivians,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Velvet Underground,
Bill Near,
Quando Quango,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Eddi Front,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Tremeloes,
Zapp,
Delta 5,
Kevin Saunderson,
Motorama,
Terrestrial Tones,
Mantronix,
The Invisible,
E-Dancer,
Alphaville,
The Monochrome Set,
Black Sheep,
UT,
LL Cool J,
Chris & Cosey,
Make Up,
Gabor Szabo,
Mary Jane Girls,
The New Christs,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Cluster,
Joe Smooth,
Suicide,
Groovy Waters,
Flamin' Groovies,
Derrick May,
June Days,
ABC,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Soulsonic Force,
Gang of Four,
La Düsseldorf,
ABBA,
Von Mondo,
Radio Birdman,
Flash Fearless,
Michelle Simonal,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Don Cherry,
X-101,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Eric Dolphy,
Alton Ellis,
Andrew Hill,
DJ Style,
Blancmange,
The Modern Lovers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Doobie Brothers,
Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan.
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.