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 France and from Salvador.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Section 25 to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Lindisfarne,
Isaac Hayes,
Sonic Youth,
The Techniques,
The Fugs,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Last Poets,
Eric Copeland,
A Certain Ratio,
Moss Icon,
Visage,
Massinfluence,
Anthony Braxton,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Brand Nubian,
This Heat,
The Evens,
The Remains,
Roger Hodgson,
Freddie Wadling,
One Last Wish,
Rosa Yemen,
48th St. Collective,
Trumans Water,
Aaron Thompson,
Dennis Brown,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sight & Sound,
Khruangbin,
The Walker Brothers,
Scrapy,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ohio Players,
The Saints,
Nico,
Ultra Naté,
Rotary Connection,
Kevin Saunderson,
Warren Ellis,
Section 25,
The Skatalites,
The Invisible,
The Martian,
John Coltrane,
MC5,
Thee Headcoats,
The Gories,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
EPMD,
Funkadelic,
Sarah Menescal,
Terry Callier,
Wasted Youth,
Interpol,
Rhythm & Sound,
Groovy Waters,
June of 44,
Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U.
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.