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 Venezuela and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Quadrant to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All Agent Orange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oppenheimer Analysis 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Cale,
cv313,
Wings,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Black Pus,
FM Einheit,
Thee Headcoats,
Blancmange,
Trumans Water,
The Doobie Brothers,
Alison Limerick,
The Slits,
The Toasters,
Moss Icon,
Colin Newman,
Joey Negro,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kerri Chandler,
Livin' Joy,
The Seeds,
MC5,
The Happenings,
Wasted Youth,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Funky Four + One,
Technova,
Harmonia,
The Cosmic Jokers,
In Retrospect,
The Remains,
Heaven 17,
The Mojo Men,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gregory Isaacs,
Liliput,
Funkadelic,
Pussy Galore,
DJ Style,
Mark Hollis,
The Sound,
Newcleus,
Ice-T,
Magma,
Tubeway Army,
LL Cool J,
Minnie Riperton,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Erykah Badu,
Outsiders,
Rekid,
Anakelly,
Radiohead,
The Five Americans,
F. McDonald,
Smog,
Quadrant,
The Misunderstood,
Unrelated Segments,
The Dave Clark Five,
Derrick Morgan,
Eli Mardock,
The Gladiators,
Pole,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.