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 Lesotho and from Spokane.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 rhodes 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 Livin' Joy to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Accadde A. All the underground hits.
All Wolf Eyes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kango’s Stein Massive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultramagnetic MC's record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
Matthew Halsall,
Tom Boy,
The Buckinghams,
Todd Rundgren,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Wally Richardson,
Letta Mbulu,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Television Personalities,
Sandy B,
Royal Trux,
Camberwell Now,
Pantytec,
Nas,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
X-101,
Sun City Girls,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
John Foxx,
Infiniti,
Man Parrish,
The Cowsills,
The Martian,
Siglo XX,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Trumans Water,
Aloha Tigers,
The Fire Engines,
Boz Scaggs,
Simply Red,
Frankie Knuckles,
Roxy Music,
Warsaw,
Babytalk,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Tomorrow,
Jacob Miller,
Byron Stingily,
Minor Threat,
Metal Thangz,
Alton Ellis,
Tim Buckley,
The Golliwogs,
The Cramps,
Derrick Morgan,
Ten City,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Magazine,
Maleditus Sound,
cv313,
Eurythmics,
Zero Boys,
Cybotron,
The Toasters,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
In Retrospect,
Black Sheep,
Glambeats Corp.,
Radiohead,
Charles Mingus,
Piero Umiliani,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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.