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 Mali and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Bremen.
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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Aural Exciters to the grunge 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 Residents. All the underground hits.
All The Litter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cluster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crime,
Marine Girls,
Todd Rundgren,
ABC,
One Last Wish,
Maleditus Sound,
Fatback Band,
Brass Construction,
48th St. Collective,
Adolescents,
Jacques Brel,
This Heat,
Ludus,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Dave Gahan,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
FM Einheit,
X-101,
Andrew Hill,
Visage,
Avey Tare,
Essential Logic,
Surgeon,
Frankie Knuckles,
Wasted Youth,
Neil Young,
Drive Like Jehu,
Country Teasers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Zeros,
Main Source,
The United States of America,
Tim Buckley,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Barclay James Harvest,
Isaac Hayes,
Ohio Players,
Symarip,
Roxette,
Youth Brigade,
Lungfish,
The Star Department,
Dual Sessions,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Angels of Light,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Peter & Gordon,
Malaria!,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Gories,
CMW,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gang Gang Dance,
Severed Heads,
Altered Images,
T.S.O.L.,
Agitation Free,
Camberwell Now,
Unrelated Segments,
Swans,
Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis.
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.