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 Armenia and from Sao Paulo.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Kool Moe Dee to the jazz 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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Tremeloes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Excepter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minor Threat,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Detroit Cobras,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Dead C,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Sonics,
Grauzone,
the Swans,
Yusef Lateef,
Nick Fraelich,
Fat Boys,
Spandau Ballet,
Whodini,
Ronan,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Monochrome Set,
Moebius,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Man Eating Sloth,
Black Pus,
Sound Behaviour,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ornette Coleman,
Unrelated Segments,
Tommy Roe,
The Searchers,
Minutemen,
The Black Dice,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sparks,
Au Pairs,
Pierre Henry,
Peter and Kerry,
Juan Atkins,
Tomorrow,
Camouflage,
Jeff Lynne,
cv313,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Mojo Men,
Essential Logic,
Con Funk Shun,
Wasted Youth,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Cowsills,
Model 500,
Man Parrish,
New Age Steppers,
Urselle,
Arthur Verocai,
Oneida,
the Bar-Kays,
The Move,
MC5,
Jacques Brel,
Deakin,
David McCallum,
Wally Richardson,
Jacob Miller,
Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly.
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.