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 Korea South and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Q and Not U to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siglo XX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobbi Humphrey,
Susan Cadogan,
Camberwell Now,
The Remains,
China Crisis,
PIL,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Skarface,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Guru Guru,
Underground Resistance,
The Moleskins,
Gong,
The Angels of Light,
Roxy Music,
The Leaves,
Prince Buster,
Cameo,
Jeff Lynne,
Danielle Patucci,
Intrusion,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Moss Icon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
the Bar-Kays,
Peter and Kerry,
U.S. Maple,
Patti Smith,
Scratch Acid,
Avey Tare,
Derrick Morgan,
Babytalk,
Eric Dolphy,
The Walker Brothers,
The Gladiators,
The Electric Prunes,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Vogues,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Buckinghams,
Reagan Youth,
Freddie Wadling,
kango's stein massive,
The Gap Band,
The J.B.'s,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Cybotron,
Michelle Simonal,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
One Last Wish,
Robert Hood,
Mo-Dettes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Max Romeo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Mad Mike,
Anakelly,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lakeside,
Harpers Bizarre,
Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin.
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.