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 Malta and from Johannesburg.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Houston.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Underground Resistance to the grunge 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 James Chance & The Contortions. All the underground hits.
All Pere Ubu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ten City,
Big Daddy Kane,
Cybotron,
The Misunderstood,
Magma,
This Heat,
Sonny Sharrock,
Mad Mike,
Ornette Coleman,
Gerry Rafferty,
Byron Stingily,
Kas Product,
Swans,
Eurythmics,
Skarface,
Wings,
Cameo,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Eddi Front,
Alison Limerick,
Derrick May,
The Fortunes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Colin Newman,
Gil Scott Heron,
Heaven 17,
The Fuzztones,
Gong,
The Mummies,
Organ,
Josef K,
L. Decosne,
Howard Jones,
Boredoms,
Graham Central Station,
Pere Ubu,
Basic Channel,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ohio Players,
Loose Ends,
Stiv Bators,
La Düsseldorf,
The Smoke,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bluetip,
Inner City,
The Flesh Eaters,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Music Machine,
James White and The Blacks,
Ludus,
Scratch Acid,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Delta 5,
ABBA,
Anthony Braxton,
Spoonie Gee,
Terry Callier,
Darondo,
Roy Ayers,
Sun City Girls,
Ice-T,
Drexciya,
Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo.
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.