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 New Zealand and from Bremen.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All the Germs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Selecter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
Intrusion,
Joyce Sims,
Slick Rick,
The Human League,
Rhythm & Sound,
Donny Hathaway,
Barbara Tucker,
Television Personalities,
Niagra,
The Monks,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Basic Channel,
Sparks,
Aswad,
Bang On A Can,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
MC5,
the Bar-Kays,
The Modern Lovers,
Bush Tetras,
Public Image Ltd.,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Black Sheep,
Talk Talk,
Cybotron,
Skriet,
The Divine Comedy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nico,
Ralphi Rosario,
Audionom,
Dennis Brown,
The Happenings,
EPMD,
Max Romeo,
Davy DMX,
Delon & Dalcan,
Newcleus,
The Gap Band,
Girls At Our Best!,
Joe Smooth,
Minnie Riperton,
Bobby Sherman,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Invisible,
Agent Orange,
ABBA,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Letta Mbulu,
The United States of America,
Chrome,
Big Daddy Kane,
Cymande,
Excepter,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Smiths,
Ultimate Spinach,
Matthew Bourne,
Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers.
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.