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 Germany and from Glasgow.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Bremen.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 Peter & Gordon to the grime 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 48th St. Collective. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David McCallum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Divine Comedy,
Skriet,
Grandmaster Flash,
Avey Tare,
cv313,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sex Pistols,
Section 25,
The Fall,
DJ Sneak,
Pulsallama,
Johnny Osbourne,
Maurizio,
The Toasters,
Royal Trux,
Can,
Radio Birdman,
The Victims,
The Count Five,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Marshall Jefferson,
David McCallum,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Donald Byrd,
Joyce Sims,
Yellowson,
Public Enemy,
Sällskapet,
Wolf Eyes,
Delon & Dalcan,
Pet Shop Boys,
Boogie Down Productions,
Main Source,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Marine Girls,
Thee Headcoats,
Alton Ellis,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Clear Light,
The Gladiators,
Absolute Body Control,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
X-Ray Spex,
Ralphi Rosario,
Duran Duran,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sonic Youth,
Stiv Bators,
Los Fastidios,
Don Cherry,
Kaleidoscope,
Model 500,
The Buckinghams,
Yusef Lateef,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Pere Ubu,
Whodini,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Scratch Acid,
Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers.
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.