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 Niger and from Salvador.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 The Gories to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Erykah Badu. All the underground hits.
All Silicon Teens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Star Department record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ponytail,
Nirvana,
The Cure,
The Monochrome Set,
Accadde A,
Yusef Lateef,
Flipper,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Frankie Knuckles,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jawbox,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Crispian St. Peters,
Eurythmics,
Chris & Cosey,
Yellowson,
Jandek,
Delon & Dalcan,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lungfish,
Livin' Joy,
Pharoah Sanders,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Isaac Hayes,
Banda Bassotti,
The Smoke,
Toni Rubio,
Royal Trux,
Spoonie Gee,
Lou Christie,
Aaron Thompson,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Stooges,
Joe Smooth,
Laurel Aitken,
Little Man,
Gastr Del Sol,
Scratch Acid,
Fear,
Ken Boothe,
Kayak,
Gabor Szabo,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
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Simply Red,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Silicon Teens,
John Coltrane,
Main Source,
Mary Jane Girls,
Spandau Ballet,
The Fall,
Faust,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Peter & Gordon,
Public Enemy,
Jeff Mills,
Pulsallama,
Malaria!,
Excepter, Excepter, Excepter, Excepter.
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.