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 Niger and from Paris.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro 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 Q and Not U to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Carl Craig. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Raincoats record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy Collins,
Lalann,
The Gun Club,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Roger Hodgson,
DNA,
Pantaleimon,
Andrew Hill,
Bad Manners,
Janne Schatter,
Dave Gahan,
Kaleidoscope,
Camberwell Now,
Ralphi Rosario,
Robert Görl,
The Fuzztones,
Flipper,
Derrick Morgan,
Barclay James Harvest,
Royal Trux,
The Names,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Trojans,
The Sound,
Shoche,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Move,
The Gap Band,
Rakim,
Television Personalities,
Man Parrish,
Can,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
the Soft Cell,
Warsaw,
Deakin,
Nils Olav,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gastr Del Sol,
A Certain Ratio,
Howard Jones,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Make Up,
The Zeros,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Maurizio,
Tommy Roe,
Wally Richardson,
The Monochrome Set,
Das Ding,
Big Daddy Kane,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Electric Prunes,
Gang Starr,
a-ha,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Last Poets,
PIL,
In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect.
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.