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 Denmark and from Philadelphia.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Man Parrish to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers Ubiquity record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bluetip,
Banda Bassotti,
Lee Hazlewood,
Hoover,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Human League,
OOIOO,
David Axelrod,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Television Personalities,
The Raincoats,
Dave Gahan,
Barrington Levy,
Leonard Cohen,
Reagan Youth,
Massinfluence,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Mars,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Toasters,
Suburban Knight,
Los Fastidios,
Swans,
Soft Cell,
Pierre Henry,
Peter and Kerry,
Chris & Cosey,
Kenny Larkin,
Livin' Joy,
Fluxion,
Kerrie Biddell,
EPMD,
Howard Jones,
Black Sheep,
Kaleidoscope,
Moss Icon,
The Slits,
Quadrant,
FM Einheit,
The Standells,
Dawn Penn,
MC5,
Masters at Work,
Robert Görl,
The Moody Blues,
Soul Sonic Force,
Marvin Gaye,
Organ,
R.M.O.,
Ituana,
Mandrill,
Mission of Burma,
cv313,
Siglo XX,
Eve St. Jones,
The Fall,
Patti Smith,
The Dirtbombs,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lungfish,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.