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 Yemen and from Glasgow.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Talk Talk to the crunk 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 Cheater Slicks. All the underground hits.
All Mandrill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cheater Slicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Freddie Wadling,
Frankie Knuckles,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kas Product,
New Order,
Junior Murvin,
Essential Logic,
Tears for Fears,
Cymande,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Magma,
The Human League,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Flesh Eaters,
Supertramp,
Panda Bear,
Gregory Isaacs,
Talk Talk,
Soulsonic Force,
The Moleskins,
Hardrive,
Bobby Sherman,
UT,
Iggy Pop,
Severed Heads,
Pharoah Sanders,
Althea and Donna,
Heaven 17,
Delta 5,
David McCallum,
Organ,
The Star Department,
Don Cherry,
The Standells,
Main Source,
Prince Buster,
Byron Stingily,
Camberwell Now,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Los Fastidios,
Susan Cadogan,
The Velvet Underground,
Ultimate Spinach,
Marvin Gaye,
The Motions,
Nik Kershaw,
Au Pairs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Real Kids,
Oblivians,
Vladislav Delay,
The Toasters,
Fad Gadget,
Niagra,
The Beau Brummels,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Monks,
Mad Mike,
La Düsseldorf,
The Sound,
8 Eyed Spy,
Donny Hathaway,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
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.