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 Bolivia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Soul II Soul to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Moby Grape tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minny Pops record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Circle Jerks,
Vladislav Delay,
Traffic Nightmare,
Blossom Toes,
Warren Ellis,
Marc Almond,
Jeru the Damaja,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Joyce Sims,
Au Pairs,
Dorothy Ashby,
Swell Maps,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Kinks,
Soulsonic Force,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bush Tetras,
Glambeats Corp.,
Davy DMX,
Howard Jones,
The Red Krayola,
Grauzone,
Nils Olav,
One Last Wish,
The Moleskins,
Von Mondo,
John Holt,
Todd Terry,
Television,
Henry Cow,
Morten Harket,
Aural Exciters,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Michelle Simonal,
New Age Steppers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ken Boothe,
Scrapy,
Ralphi Rosario,
E-Dancer,
ABC,
Dawn Penn,
Porter Ricks,
Isaac Hayes,
Gichy Dan,
Ponytail,
Soft Cell,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Moebius,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Zeros,
Gang Green,
Ossler,
The Five Americans,
Donald Byrd,
Deadbeat,
Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic.
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.