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 Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Copenhagen.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 Rod Modell to the grime 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
Bronski Beat,
Q65,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Motorama,
L. Decosne,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Johnny Osbourne,
X-Ray Spex,
Sandy B,
Slick Rick,
Erasure,
Unrelated Segments,
Eric B and Rakim,
Amon Düül,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Bobby Womack,
Youth Brigade,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Fuzztones,
Jandek,
Shuggie Otis,
Hashim,
New York Dolls,
Roxette,
Grauzone,
Tommy Roe,
Jawbox,
Bobby Byrd,
Davy DMX,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Doobie Brothers,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Roxy Music,
The Evens,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Skarface,
Amon Düül II,
kango's stein massive,
Theoretical Girls,
Yellowson,
Grey Daturas,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Move,
Qualms,
Man Eating Sloth,
Schoolly D,
Pantaleimon,
Barbara Tucker,
Scion,
Thee Headcoats,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Model 500,
Accadde A,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Young Rascals,
Surgeon,
Ponytail,
Television,
Parry Music,
T.S.O.L.,
Radiohead,
10cc, 10cc, 10cc, 10cc.
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.