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 Tunisia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lagos.
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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar 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 Boz Scaggs to the rock 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 Anthony Braxton. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Loose Ends record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Yellowson,
Sex Pistols,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Flesh Eaters,
Skaos,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Moebius,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Judy Mowatt,
John Coltrane,
Brass Construction,
Public Enemy,
The Skatalites,
Monolake,
Tres Demented,
The Victims,
Panda Bear,
Thompson Twins,
Franke,
Pantaleimon,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Funkadelic,
The Smoke,
Peter and Kerry,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Laurel Aitken,
Matthew Bourne,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Accadde A,
Janne Schatter,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Hashim,
Radio Birdman,
Lungfish,
Scrapy,
Neu!,
Porter Ricks,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Radiohead,
Alison Limerick,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Pere Ubu,
Avey Tare,
These Immortal Souls,
Sun City Girls,
Q and Not U,
Au Pairs,
Ralphi Rosario,
Flipper,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Andrew Hill,
Bootsy Collins,
Public Image Ltd.,
kango's stein massive,
Scientists,
Marcia Griffiths,
Soul II Soul,
Tomorrow,
The Barracudas,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.