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 Comoros and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lagos.
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 spring reverb 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All The Music Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Surgeon 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
JFA,
Popol Vuh,
Cluster,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
DJ Style,
Bobby Sherman,
Nas,
Ultimate Spinach,
Kaleidoscope,
Chris & Cosey,
Erykah Badu,
Thompson Twins,
Jeru the Damaja,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Wings,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Circle Jerks,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Loose Ends,
Piero Umiliani,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Von Mondo,
Soft Machine,
Patti Smith,
Bauhaus,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bang On A Can,
Zapp,
Skarface,
Pylon,
the Germs,
Lungfish,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Groovy Waters,
Harmonia,
The American Breed,
Tubeway Army,
The Alarm Clocks,
Eddi Front,
Livin' Joy,
Zero Boys,
Man Parrish,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ronan,
Radiohead,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Blackbyrds,
The Move,
Arab on Radar,
The Dead C,
T. Rex,
The Gap Band,
Pagans,
Cal Tjader,
Magma,
Terry Callier,
Jesper Dahlback,
Graham Central Station,
Agitation Free,
the Swans, the Swans, the Swans, the Swans.
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.