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 Iceland and from Taipei.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Saccharine Trust to the electroclash 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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magma record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Second Layer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Subhumans,
Carl Craig,
The Last Poets,
Stetsasonic,
Tomorrow,
U.S. Maple,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Velvet Underground,
Peter and Kerry,
Audionom,
The Neon Judgement,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Divine Comedy,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Gladiators,
Eric Dolphy,
Essential Logic,
MC5,
Eurythmics,
Simply Red,
Graham Central Station,
DJ Style,
Sparks,
Heaven 17,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
8 Eyed Spy,
Byron Stingily,
Joensuu 1685,
Traffic Nightmare,
Vladislav Delay,
Hardrive,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ohio Players,
Silicon Teens,
Talk Talk,
The Mojo Men,
Minnie Riperton,
Stereo Dub,
Tropical Tobacco,
Isaac Hayes,
Drexciya,
PIL,
Idris Muhammad,
Freddie Wadling,
Television Personalities,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bush Tetras,
Bluetip,
Radiohead,
Davy DMX,
Donald Byrd,
The Flesh Eaters,
Godley & Creme,
Duran Duran,
Sonic Youth,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Whodini,
China Crisis,
Brass Construction,
Panda Bear,
Easy Going,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.