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 Slovakia and from Lyon.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Invisible to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Kurtis Blow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wasted Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Half Japanese,
The Techniques,
The Kinks,
Soft Machine,
Brick,
Bobby Womack,
Donald Byrd,
The Stooges,
Lou Christie,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Cramps,
Soul Sonic Force,
Idris Muhammad,
Barbara Tucker,
The Last Poets,
Johnny Clarke,
Surgeon,
The Barracudas,
La Düsseldorf,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Livin' Joy,
Jeff Mills,
Neu!,
Black Pus,
Eddi Front,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sixth Finger,
Erykah Badu,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Wolf Eyes,
Gang of Four,
World's Most,
Dark Day,
Morten Harket,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Erasure,
David McCallum,
The Offenders,
One Last Wish,
Deepchord,
Rotary Connection,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gregory Isaacs,
Drexciya,
Lungfish,
LL Cool J,
The Victims,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Royal Trux,
Rufus Thomas,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Agitation Free,
Adolescents,
Cecil Taylor,
Sound Behaviour,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Eurythmics,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sparks, Sparks, Sparks, Sparks.
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.