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 Uzbekistan and from New York.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Au Pairs to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All Sandy B tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kango’s Stein Massive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Copeland,
Section 25,
David Bowie,
Godley & Creme,
Matthew Bourne,
Basic Channel,
Technova,
Deadbeat,
Joensuu 1685,
Drexciya,
Carl Craig,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Names,
The Searchers,
Deepchord,
Cecil Taylor,
Jeru the Damaja,
Tommy Roe,
ABBA,
Jesper Dahlback,
Aaron Thompson,
Nick Fraelich,
Don Cherry,
Second Layer,
the Sonics,
Young Marble Giants,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
This Heat,
Faraquet,
Public Enemy,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Graham Central Station,
48th St. Collective,
June of 44,
Johnny Osbourne,
Desert Stars,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Gun Club,
Kool Moe Dee,
Chris & Cosey,
Inner City,
Circle Jerks,
Nirvana,
Todd Terry,
David McCallum,
Accadde A,
Excepter,
Cybotron,
X-102,
Barclay James Harvest,
DJ Sneak,
Susan Cadogan,
Kayak,
Thompson Twins,
Simply Red,
Zapp,
Erasure,
Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes.
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.