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 Yemen and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the crunk 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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Man Eating Sloth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ludus,
The Shadows of Knight,
the Swans,
Supertramp,
The Remains,
Aural Exciters,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Fugazi,
Anakelly,
Rapeman,
Rufus Thomas,
L. Decosne,
Pussy Galore,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Avey Tare,
Index,
Bobby Sherman,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Throbbing Gristle,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Idris Muhammad,
Don Cherry,
Pylon,
Guru Guru,
Dennis Brown,
Niagra,
The Techniques,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ultravox,
Yaz,
Lyres,
the Normal,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Quando Quango,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Infiniti,
June of 44,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Q65,
OOIOO,
Scratch Acid,
Sound Behaviour,
Japan,
The Happenings,
Echospace,
Wire,
The Young Rascals,
Agent Orange,
Parry Music,
Sugar Minott,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Judy Mowatt,
China Crisis,
Kaleidoscope,
Radiohead,
Whodini,
Flash Fearless,
AZ,
Marine Girls,
Arcadia,
Roy Ayers,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.