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 El Salvador and from Hong Kong.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Accra.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Accadde A to the electroclash 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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Circle Jerks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronnie Foster,
Make Up,
Graham Central Station,
Jesper Dahlback,
Television Personalities,
Ronan,
One Last Wish,
MDC,
The Moleskins,
Matthew Bourne,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Aswad,
CMW,
Vainqueur,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Y Pants,
Beasts of Bourbon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Last Poets,
Loose Ends,
Black Flag,
AZ,
Roxette,
Kevin Saunderson,
Kenny Larkin,
Joy Division,
The Divine Comedy,
Alice Coltrane,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Moody Blues,
Accadde A,
Lyres,
Dead Boys,
The Gladiators,
KRS-One,
DNA,
the Soft Cell,
Gang Starr,
Nik Kershaw,
Glenn Branca,
Ossler,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Morten Harket,
The Monochrome Set,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Barry Ungar,
Ponytail,
Tomorrow,
John Foxx,
Marine Girls,
The Buckinghams,
Skriet,
Rufus Thomas,
Roger Hodgson,
Suicide,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ultravox,
Barbara Tucker,
The Victims,
Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter.
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.