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 United States and from Mexico City.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Soul Sonic Force to the techno 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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All Strawberry Alarm Clock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Popol Vuh record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Severed Heads record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jimmy McGriff,
Lower 48,
Faraquet,
Tom Boy,
Arab on Radar,
Wings,
Radiohead,
Joey Negro,
Steve Hackett,
Mantronix,
Delta 5,
The Human League,
Malaria!,
Roxy Music,
Leonard Cohen,
Grey Daturas,
Camberwell Now,
Camouflage,
Don Cherry,
The Zeros,
Sun Ra,
Smog,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Seeds,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sonny Sharrock,
Icehouse,
The Selecter,
U.S. Maple,
Angry Samoans,
Laurel Aitken,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Country Teasers,
Alice Coltrane,
Thompson Twins,
The Mojo Men,
Eric B and Rakim,
Bobby Womack,
Marcia Griffiths,
Tomorrow,
John Foxx,
The Fugs,
Fad Gadget,
Spandau Ballet,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Minor Threat,
Ice-T,
Rapeman,
KRS-One,
DJ Style,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fear,
D'Angelo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Curtis Mayfield,
Nils Olav,
The Standells,
Marine Girls,
Inner City,
Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work.
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.