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 Portugal and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 organ 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 Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks to the electroclash 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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Red Krayola record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Lydon,
Motorama,
The Grass Roots,
Monolake,
Tubeway Army,
Grauzone,
Sister Nancy,
Soulsonic Force,
The Moleskins,
David Axelrod,
June Days,
Con Funk Shun,
Main Source,
The Techniques,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Five Americans,
CMW,
Vladislav Delay,
Neil Young,
Terrestrial Tones,
Intrusion,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Crash Course in Science,
Thee Headcoats,
Das Ding,
Cheater Slicks,
Surgeon,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sällskapet,
Todd Terry,
Amon Düül II,
Wasted Youth,
Symarip,
Oneida,
Arab on Radar,
Gong,
Kerri Chandler,
Soul II Soul,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Aloha Tigers,
Marvin Gaye,
Gang Green,
Y Pants,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rites of Spring,
Malaria!,
Fad Gadget,
Don Cherry,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Barclay James Harvest,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Vogues,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Popol Vuh,
Soft Machine,
Sex Pistols,
Can,
Chris Corsano,
Lower 48,
Audionom, Audionom, Audionom, Audionom.
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.