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 Dominica and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Louis and Bebe Barron to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tubeway Army record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crash Course in Science,
Babytalk,
B.T. Express,
Sound Behaviour,
Youth Brigade,
The Velvet Underground,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Stockholm Monsters,
Soul Sonic Force,
Scan 7,
John Lydon,
Qualms,
Average White Band,
Yusef Lateef,
Pantaleimon,
KRS-One,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Arthur Verocai,
Eddi Front,
Vladislav Delay,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Audionom,
Boredoms,
Motorama,
Minnie Riperton,
Depeche Mode,
Eric Dolphy,
Can,
Warsaw,
T.S.O.L.,
Roxette,
Au Pairs,
Gang Green,
Prince Buster,
Sun Ra,
China Crisis,
The Fugs,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Max Romeo,
Brick,
Model 500,
Marc Almond,
Half Japanese,
Roxy Music,
Theoretical Girls,
The Five Americans,
Spandau Ballet,
Scion,
Fluxion,
Alton Ellis,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Erykah Badu,
Nils Olav,
The Techniques,
Neu!,
Matthew Bourne,
Susan Cadogan,
Letta Mbulu,
The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter.
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.