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 Spain and from London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Quantec to the techno 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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Girls At Our Best! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mighty Diamonds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
Idris Muhammad,
Kaleidoscope,
Freddie Wadling,
The Techniques,
Panda Bear,
The Selecter,
Joy Division,
Marcia Griffiths,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
the Sonics,
The Vogues,
the Normal,
the Soft Cell,
Vainqueur,
The Cramps,
Interpol,
Deakin,
The Seeds,
Anthony Braxton,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Birthday Party,
Chris Corsano,
Harmonia,
Drive Like Jehu,
kango's stein massive,
Lightning Bolt,
Procol Harum,
Fear,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ohio Players,
The Flesh Eaters,
MC5,
Bill Wells,
Heaven 17,
Porter Ricks,
Malaria!,
Frankie Knuckles,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Underground Resistance,
New York Dolls,
X-Ray Spex,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Soft Cell,
Yellowson,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Accadde A,
Make Up,
The Invisible,
Byron Stingily,
Marshall Jefferson,
Visage,
James White and The Blacks,
Jeff Lynne,
Parry Music,
Tommy Roe,
The Doors,
Fluxion,
the Association,
Deepchord,
John Cale,
The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America.
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.