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 Taiwan and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin 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 Schoolly D to the rock 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 Marmalade. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blancmange record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
Dennis Brown,
Duran Duran,
Sällskapet,
Sight & Sound,
Ponytail,
Todd Rundgren,
Marine Girls,
Tubeway Army,
The Gun Club,
Matthew Halsall,
Joyce Sims,
Kool Moe Dee,
Jeff Lynne,
Maleditus Sound,
Crooked Eye,
Wire,
Skaos,
R.M.O.,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Unrelated Segments,
Crime,
Altered Images,
Peter & Gordon,
Quadrant,
Johnny Clarke,
kango's stein massive,
Alphaville,
Yellowson,
Hasil Adkins,
Fugazi,
Sugar Minott,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Nils Olav,
Tomorrow,
The Moody Blues,
the Fania All-Stars,
Graham Central Station,
Harry Pussy,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Average White Band,
AZ,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kayak,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Siglo XX,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Fuzztones,
Cluster,
Agent Orange,
Silicon Teens,
Nas,
Khruangbin,
Dead Boys,
Patti Smith,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Half Japanese,
The Gladiators,
Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig.
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.