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 Spokane.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Bologna.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the theremin 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 Sandy B to the electroclash 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 Nik Kershaw. All the underground hits.
All Minny Pops tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Byrd 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stereo Dub record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
Con Funk Shun,
The Gap Band,
B.T. Express,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bang On A Can,
The Smiths,
Make Up,
Lou Reed,
Reagan Youth,
Bob Dylan,
Fluxion,
Roy Ayers,
Crispy Ambulance,
a-ha,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Young Rascals,
The Gories,
Dark Day,
Soul II Soul,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Von Mondo,
Johnny Osbourne,
Camouflage,
Scan 7,
Symarip,
Duran Duran,
Crispian St. Peters,
Graham Central Station,
Kenny Larkin,
Desert Stars,
Tomorrow,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Model 500,
Matthew Halsall,
Bobby Byrd,
Janne Schatter,
Alphaville,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Grey Daturas,
The Neon Judgement,
Rosa Yemen,
Boredoms,
Cymande,
the Slits,
Susan Cadogan,
Eurythmics,
Schoolly D,
Pantytec,
The Dirtbombs,
New Order,
Jacob Miller,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Arab on Radar,
FM Einheit,
X-101,
June of 44,
Dennis Brown,
Accadde A,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.