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 Ivory Coast and from Tokyo.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 48th St. Collective 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 It's A Beautiful Day. All the underground hits.
All Nas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Al Stewart record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Can,
Dave Gahan,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Leaves,
Pylon,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sister Nancy,
Sixth Finger,
Colin Newman,
Byron Stingily,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Joy Division,
E-Dancer,
Delon & Dalcan,
Jandek,
Masters at Work,
Icehouse,
Public Image Ltd.,
Alton Ellis,
Juan Atkins,
Main Source,
Carl Craig,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Cabaret Voltaire,
Charles Mingus,
Lou Christie,
The Martian,
Intrusion,
Marine Girls,
Todd Terry,
Mr. Review,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Nico,
Theoretical Girls,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Alphaville,
Circle Jerks,
Dawn Penn,
Chrome,
Liliput,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Urselle,
Vladislav Delay,
Stereo Dub,
The American Breed,
Fort Wilson Riot,
X-102,
Ludus,
The Beau Brummels,
The Victims,
Kayak,
Erasure,
The Vogues,
Lungfish,
Wasted Youth,
Ronan,
The Offenders,
Janne Schatter,
Flipper,
Scratch Acid,
Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic.
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.