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 Brazil and from Paris.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
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 Roxy Music to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Adolescents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a a-ha record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
Funkadelic,
Basic Channel,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Maleditus Sound,
The Young Rascals,
Intrusion,
Quando Quango,
Niagra,
Kool Moe Dee,
Negative Approach,
Slave,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ultravox,
Pagans,
Slick Rick,
Darondo,
Kurtis Blow,
Hoover,
Organ,
Tomorrow,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rekid,
Public Enemy,
Loose Ends,
Sarah Menescal,
Gil Scott Heron,
Gichy Dan,
The Neon Judgement,
Cymande,
Au Pairs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Altered Images,
Ronnie Foster,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Vladislav Delay,
David Bowie,
Monks,
Marmalade,
Essential Logic,
Mars,
Con Funk Shun,
Eric Dolphy,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Monochrome Set,
The Cowsills,
Bush Tetras,
Scion,
The New Christs,
Rotary Connection,
kango's stein massive,
The Fire Engines,
Visage,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
X-102,
Audionom,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Fugs,
The Standells,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Graham Central Station,
Crispy Ambulance,
Isaac Hayes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near.
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.