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 Croatia and from Delhi.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 X-102 to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Cabaret Voltaire. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rekid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Throbbing Gristle,
Motorama,
Pussy Galore,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Martian,
Half Japanese,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Blackbyrds,
Quantec,
Lou Reed,
Mark Hollis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Alarm Clocks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Five Americans,
Be Bop Deluxe,
X-101,
Andrew Hill,
Rhythm & Sound,
Toni Rubio,
Lakeside,
Slick Rick,
Connie Case,
The Dead C,
The Sound,
Mission of Burma,
Radio Birdman,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Deakin,
Byron Stingily,
Freddie Wadling,
Trumans Water,
The Gun Club,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Depeche Mode,
Ituana,
Quadrant,
Davy DMX,
Graham Central Station,
The Moody Blues,
Main Source,
Black Bananas,
Von Mondo,
Inner City,
Henry Cow,
Anthony Braxton,
The Stooges,
Gang Gang Dance,
Absolute Body Control,
Yellowson,
K-Klass,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
the Germs,
Kevin Saunderson,
PIL,
Delta 5,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Rites of Spring,
Can,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.