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 Haiti and from London.
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 Manchester and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 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 Anakelly to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Tremeloes. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fire Engines 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bronski Beat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aswad,
Essential Logic,
H. Thieme,
Darondo,
A Flock of Seagulls,
These Immortal Souls,
the Bar-Kays,
OOIOO,
Section 25,
The Divine Comedy,
Pantaleimon,
Robert Hood,
Loose Ends,
The J.B.'s,
Mark Hollis,
Idris Muhammad,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Organ,
Tears for Fears,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rotary Connection,
Roy Ayers,
Brand Nubian,
John Coltrane,
Cluster,
Cameo,
The Gap Band,
Maurizio,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Jimmy McGriff,
Echospace,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Joe Finger,
Shoche,
Ken Boothe,
Dual Sessions,
Kenny Larkin,
Marcia Griffiths,
Beasts of Bourbon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
MC5,
Au Pairs,
Hashim,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Flash Fearless,
Amon Düül II,
Sound Behaviour,
B.T. Express,
R.M.O.,
The Evens,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Cowsills,
The Martian,
Livin' Joy,
Scrapy,
the Germs,
The Sonics,
Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag.
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.