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 Estonia and from Tehran.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Cowsills to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Roger Hodgson. All the underground hits.
All Oneida tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
Roxy Music,
Tim Buckley,
Inner City,
The Golliwogs,
Skaos,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Scratch Acid,
Magazine,
Loose Ends,
Sparks,
Fela Kuti,
X-102,
Ten City,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
E-Dancer,
Jandek,
Swans,
The New Christs,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Skatalites,
Oneida,
Barrington Levy,
X-Ray Spex,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Crime,
Connie Case,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Brothers Johnson,
Ronan,
Funky Four + One,
Sugar Minott,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ponytail,
Bootsy Collins,
Lebanon Hanover,
Dorothy Ashby,
Cymande,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gichy Dan,
Swell Maps,
Minor Threat,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Supertramp,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Angels of Light,
Rosa Yemen,
Sonny Sharrock,
Eyeless In Gaza,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Vladislav Delay,
Jesper Dahlback,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Pop Group,
Cybotron,
The Gories, The Gories, The Gories, The Gories.
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.