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 Norway and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the güiro 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 Kurtis Blow to the grime 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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vaughan Mason & Crew record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nils Olav record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alphaville,
Robert Görl,
John Cale,
Underground Resistance,
Crooked Eye,
Glambeats Corp.,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sarah Menescal,
Funky Four + One,
Lucky Dragons,
Average White Band,
Agent Orange,
Ice-T,
Derrick Morgan,
Fluxion,
Malaria!,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Trumans Water,
Pet Shop Boys,
Isaac Hayes,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Cramps,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bad Manners,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Junior Murvin,
The Invisible,
Alton Ellis,
Yaz,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Crime,
The Sound,
Alice Coltrane,
Nik Kershaw,
Barbara Tucker,
Thee Headcoats,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Qualms,
Judy Mowatt,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Dark Day,
KRS-One,
Agitation Free,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Barracudas,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Cameo,
H. Thieme,
La Düsseldorf,
Royal Trux,
Rakim,
The Sonics,
The Mummies,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Modern Lovers,
Jawbox,
Throbbing Gristle,
D'Angelo,
Hardrive,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Johnny Clarke,
Neil Young,
The Names, The Names, The Names, The Names.
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.