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 Kuwait and from Tehran.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Ituana to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Count Five. All the underground hits.
All Camberwell Now tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mad Mike record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobbi Humphrey,
Warren Ellis,
Gichy Dan,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joensuu 1685,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Mary Jane Girls,
Chrome,
Bob Dylan,
Basic Channel,
Pharoah Sanders,
Kurtis Blow,
Erykah Badu,
Fluxion,
MDC,
H. Thieme,
X-101,
Procol Harum,
Ultimate Spinach,
Barry Ungar,
Minor Threat,
Harmonia,
Fugazi,
The Barracudas,
Gong,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Royal Trux,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sight & Sound,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Seeds,
Isaac Hayes,
The Fuzztones,
the Sonics,
Quadrant,
The Cowsills,
Thompson Twins,
Absolute Body Control,
Sällskapet,
The Toasters,
The Zeros,
Nico,
10cc,
Bang On A Can,
The Birthday Party,
Gang of Four,
Bauhaus,
The Electric Prunes,
The Stooges,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Maleditus Sound,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Main Source,
Bush Tetras,
This Heat,
Joe Finger,
Piero Umiliani,
Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja.
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.