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 Mali and from Mumbai.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the guitar 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 Lalann to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kurtis Blow,
Urselle,
Magazine,
Crime,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Camberwell Now,
The Gap Band,
Ossler,
Morten Harket,
The Index,
Cameo,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Black Dice,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
K-Klass,
Cymande,
La Düsseldorf,
FM Einheit,
E-Dancer,
The Young Rascals,
Pharoah Sanders,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Thee Headcoats,
Gong,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Velvet Underground,
Brothers Johnson,
Lakeside,
Eli Mardock,
Spoonie Gee,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Flesh Eaters,
The J.B.'s,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Invisible,
Swans,
Pantytec,
Livin' Joy,
Eric Copeland,
The Zeros,
Motorama,
Erasure,
The Associates,
Magma,
Radiopuhelimet,
Faraquet,
Wasted Youth,
X-101,
Massinfluence,
the Swans,
DJ Style,
Sound Behaviour,
Joensuu 1685,
The Human League,
The Mummies,
Donald Byrd,
Ornette Coleman,
48th St. Collective,
Malaria!, Malaria!, Malaria!, Malaria!.
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.