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 Angola and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in 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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Curtis Mayfield to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All The Gladiators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Wake record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mighty Diamonds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Angry Samoans,
The Gap Band,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Severed Heads,
Jimmy McGriff,
Schoolly D,
Second Layer,
Intrusion,
Popol Vuh,
The Cosmic Jokers,
ABC,
Ten City,
Joy Division,
the Slits,
Stockholm Monsters,
In Retrospect,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Pretty Things,
Symarip,
D'Angelo,
Minnie Riperton,
The Slits,
Main Source,
MDC,
Marshall Jefferson,
Grandmaster Flash,
Dave Gahan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Black Dice,
Johnny Clarke,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Jeru the Damaja,
Crime,
Slave,
Yaz,
Vainqueur,
The Doors,
Youth Brigade,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Das Ding,
The Saints,
Rekid,
The Martian,
Public Image Ltd.,
Deepchord,
Silicon Teens,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Tubeway Army,
Bobby Womack,
Interpol,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Subhumans,
The Move,
Donny Hathaway,
Susan Cadogan,
Index,
Rod Modell,
EPMD,
Make Up,
Zapp,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.