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 Botswana and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Drive Like Jehu to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Echo & the Bunnymen. All the underground hits.
All Crooked Eye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scrapy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
Roger Hodgson,
Derrick Morgan,
Crispy Ambulance,
the Slits,
Nik Kershaw,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Spandau Ballet,
Maleditus Sound,
Ultimate Spinach,
Adolescents,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Monochrome Set,
8 Eyed Spy,
Cybotron,
Eli Mardock,
Warren Ellis,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Josef K,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Black Moon,
the Germs,
The Saints,
Fad Gadget,
Jacques Brel,
The American Breed,
Neil Young,
Quando Quango,
Judy Mowatt,
Aaron Thompson,
Young Marble Giants,
Los Fastidios,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Make Up,
OOIOO,
Andrew Hill,
Wally Richardson,
Essential Logic,
Joe Smooth,
Ohio Players,
Graham Central Station,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Cal Tjader,
DJ Style,
The Skatalites,
Bobby Womack,
Metal Thangz,
The J.B.'s,
Throbbing Gristle,
Byron Stingily,
Junior Murvin,
Ultravox,
Television Personalities,
Sight & Sound,
Mandrill,
Boogie Down Productions,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Khruangbin,
Terrestrial Tones,
James White and The Blacks,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Delta 5,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.