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 Uruguay and from New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Delon & Dalcan 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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Charles Mingus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens 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 a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a B.T. Express record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Yusef Lateef,
Judy Mowatt,
Derrick May,
Au Pairs,
Amazonics,
Traffic Nightmare,
Franke,
Excepter,
Mandrill,
Can,
Isaac Hayes,
Tropical Tobacco,
Angry Samoans,
Arcadia,
Blake Baxter,
the Sonics,
The Flesh Eaters,
Faraquet,
Agitation Free,
Index,
Gang of Four,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Television Personalities,
PIL,
kango's stein massive,
Radiopuhelimet,
David McCallum,
Youth Brigade,
Donald Byrd,
Guru Guru,
Ponytail,
The Motions,
Slick Rick,
Agent Orange,
Anakelly,
The Pretty Things,
Malaria!,
June Days,
Crash Course in Science,
Sun Ra,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Funkadelic,
The Blackbyrds,
Hoover,
Cluster,
Skriet,
Absolute Body Control,
The Grass Roots,
Zapp,
Tommy Roe,
The Searchers,
One Last Wish,
Sonic Youth,
the Soft Cell,
Hardrive,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nation of Ulysses,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rites of Spring,
Scratch Acid,
Essential Logic,
Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson.
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.