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 Lille.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the 808 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 Black Sheep to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Malaria!. All the underground hits.
All Marshall Jefferson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gabor Szabo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kaleidoscope,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Moebius,
Hardrive,
Livin' Joy,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Tremeloes,
The Motions,
Lebanon Hanover,
Reagan Youth,
Royal Trux,
Eden Ahbez,
China Crisis,
Silicon Teens,
ABBA,
The Doobie Brothers,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Tears for Fears,
John Foxx,
Gregory Isaacs,
Pantaleimon,
Freddie Wadling,
The Moleskins,
Todd Rundgren,
The Fall,
Khruangbin,
Jerry's Kids,
Neu!,
Marine Girls,
The Gladiators,
Smog,
Desert Stars,
Eric B and Rakim,
Soft Cell,
Lalo Schifrin,
Neil Young,
Joy Division,
Avey Tare,
Sound Behaviour,
Monolake,
Junior Murvin,
Bang On A Can,
Gerry Rafferty,
Kool Moe Dee,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Nils Olav,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Brass Construction,
Juan Atkins,
Black Sheep,
Marmalade,
Cluster,
Scratch Acid,
Circle Jerks,
Mark Hollis,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Camberwell Now,
Lucky Dragons,
The Selecter,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.