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 Libya and from Toronto.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the sitar 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 Patti Smith to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Fifty Foot Hose tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Duran Duran,
The Sound,
Eve St. Jones,
Ralphi Rosario,
Robert Wyatt,
Cymande,
Quadrant,
Babytalk,
Moebius,
the Bar-Kays,
Guru Guru,
Dual Sessions,
Magma,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Eric Copeland,
The Martian,
Lungfish,
Susan Cadogan,
Gong,
Urselle,
Juan Atkins,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Tomorrow,
Drexciya,
Fort Wilson Riot,
OOIOO,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Qualms,
F. McDonald,
The Dave Clark Five,
R.M.O.,
Organ,
Joe Smooth,
Flash Fearless,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Kerri Chandler,
Tres Demented,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Beau Brummels,
Visage,
Erykah Badu,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
MC5,
Eric Dolphy,
Au Pairs,
The Golliwogs,
The Cosmic Jokers,
the Slits,
the Germs,
Wasted Youth,
Nico,
CMW,
Camouflage,
Country Teasers,
T.S.O.L.,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Alarm Clocks,
Wire,
Pantytec,
Chris Corsano,
Moss Icon,
Aswad, Aswad, Aswad, Aswad.
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.