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 Madagascar and from Sao Paulo.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Television Personalities to the dance 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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 güiro and a spring reverb 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 guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ultra Naté,
Q and Not U,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Trumans Water,
Ludus,
The Knickerbockers,
The Count Five,
Section 25,
Kaleidoscope,
Hardrive,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mandrill,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kurtis Blow,
The Birthday Party,
Jeff Mills,
Accadde A,
The Last Poets,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sam Rivers,
John Holt,
Tres Demented,
Idris Muhammad,
Eric Dolphy,
Flash Fearless,
Nas,
Electric Prunes,
Andrew Hill,
Ken Boothe,
Aural Exciters,
David McCallum,
Absolute Body Control,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bauhaus,
Howard Jones,
Joe Finger,
Joey Negro,
Ossler,
Newcleus,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Fire Engines,
Black Flag,
Goldenarms,
the Association,
Aswad,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Country Teasers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Steve Hackett,
Duran Duran,
Zapp,
Silicon Teens,
Marcia Griffiths,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Names,
Siglo XX,
Nick Fraelich,
Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron.
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.