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 Ireland and from Copenhagen.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 arpeggiator 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 Ituana to the techno 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Light Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Rites of Spring record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skaos,
Electric Prunes,
Q65,
Intrusion,
Piero Umiliani,
Cameo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Animal Collective,
The Detroit Cobras,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Fire Engines,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sugar Minott,
10cc,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Moleskins,
Jacques Brel,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The New Christs,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Tim Buckley,
Maurizio,
The Fugs,
Agitation Free,
Wings,
The Smoke,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
8 Eyed Spy,
LL Cool J,
Byron Stingily,
DJ Style,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Junior Murvin,
In Retrospect,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Inner City,
Amazonics,
Joe Finger,
Iggy Pop,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Searchers,
DNA,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Joe Smooth,
The Young Rascals,
Newcleus,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Delon & Dalcan,
Quando Quango,
Big Daddy Kane,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Easy Going,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Move,
Albert Ayler,
London Community Gospel Choir,
kango's stein massive,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.