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 Papua New Guinea and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 guitar 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family. All the underground hits.
All Oblivians tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hot Snakes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marshall Jefferson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Pole,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ituana,
Popol Vuh,
Harry Pussy,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Barbara Tucker,
Jeff Mills,
Patti Smith,
Second Layer,
The Misunderstood,
Simply Red,
T.S.O.L.,
Delta 5,
Alice Coltrane,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Evens,
The Modern Lovers,
Bobby Womack,
Alison Limerick,
Alton Ellis,
Marc Almond,
Roger Hodgson,
Scrapy,
Sonny Sharrock,
the Germs,
Wasted Youth,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Mojo Men,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sex Pistols,
The Sonics,
Deepchord,
Erasure,
Depeche Mode,
Anakelly,
Quadrant,
The Names,
Tim Buckley,
The Grass Roots,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Eve St. Jones,
10cc,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Shuggie Otis,
the Human League,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Happenings,
The Alarm Clocks,
the Soft Cell,
Mo-Dettes,
Sonic Youth,
Brass Construction,
Zapp,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.