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 Malaysia and from Madrid.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Bill Wells 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 Harry Pussy. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Shadows of Knight 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott Heron,
Eddi Front,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gregory Isaacs,
La Düsseldorf,
The Black Dice,
Lower 48,
Oneida,
H. Thieme,
The Gladiators,
Simply Red,
Derrick May,
Magma,
Avey Tare,
U.S. Maple,
Gang Green,
Minny Pops,
James White and The Blacks,
Average White Band,
Radiopuhelimet,
The American Breed,
Grandmaster Flash,
Matthew Halsall,
The Searchers,
The Star Department,
Marcia Griffiths,
Cal Tjader,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Beau Brummels,
Audionom,
OOIOO,
FM Einheit,
Glenn Branca,
Radiohead,
The Walker Brothers,
The Saints,
The Monochrome Set,
Joensuu 1685,
Gastr Del Sol,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Faraquet,
Eli Mardock,
A Certain Ratio,
Alphaville,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Modern Lovers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Soft Cell,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Harry Pussy,
Drexciya,
Danielle Patucci,
John Coltrane,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Chrome,
UT,
Niagra,
The Sisters of Mercy,
DJ Style,
The Sound, The Sound, The Sound, The Sound.
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.