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 Taiwan and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Inner City to the dance 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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Wells record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Au Pairs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
Chris & Cosey,
Inner City,
Crooked Eye,
Alton Ellis,
UT,
the Germs,
Schoolly D,
The Buckinghams,
Aural Exciters,
Cymande,
Arcadia,
The Martian,
Bootsy Collins,
Ultra Naté,
June of 44,
The Velvet Underground,
Prince Buster,
Kool Moe Dee,
Urselle,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Neil Young,
Deepchord,
The Black Dice,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Eric Copeland,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Sound,
Gastr Del Sol,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Swans,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pantaleimon,
Hoover,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Silicon Teens,
Symarip,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Television Personalities,
Pussy Galore,
These Immortal Souls,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Move,
Dave Gahan,
Mo-Dettes,
Scion,
Wire,
Alphaville,
Swell Maps,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Girls At Our Best!,
E-Dancer,
Gang Starr,
Stetsasonic,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
AZ,
Ultravox,
Scan 7,
Jerry's Kids,
Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon.
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.