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 Cyprus and from Portland.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Mad Mike to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Trumans Water. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rakim 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joyce Sims,
Hasil Adkins,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Raincoats,
Whodini,
Toni Rubio,
Ultra Naté,
New Order,
The Saints,
Colin Newman,
Y Pants,
10cc,
Scan 7,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Arcadia,
Aloha Tigers,
Agent Orange,
Kas Product,
Danielle Patucci,
Gang Starr,
PIL,
Sexual Harrassment,
Big Daddy Kane,
Man Parrish,
Gang Green,
Tommy Roe,
Nik Kershaw,
Carl Craig,
Roger Hodgson,
Funkadelic,
Echospace,
The Skatalites,
Derrick May,
MDC,
Leonard Cohen,
Groovy Waters,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
John Lydon,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Graham Central Station,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Fluxion,
The Knickerbockers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pharoah Sanders,
Blake Baxter,
Funky Four + One,
Jacob Miller,
The United States of America,
Skarface,
Eden Ahbez,
Severed Heads,
Neu!,
Ronan,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Grass Roots,
Motorama,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.