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 Thailand and from Copenhagen.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 mellotron 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 A Certain Ratio to the dance 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 The Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Young Marble Giants,
Saccharine Trust,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
D'Angelo,
Stetsasonic,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
DJ Sneak,
Alphaville,
Robert Wyatt,
The Selecter,
Alison Limerick,
Scrapy,
Joey Negro,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Searchers,
Crash Course in Science,
Monolake,
Spoonie Gee,
Gang Green,
Moebius,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Smoke,
Brick,
Soft Cell,
The Skatalites,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The American Breed,
B.T. Express,
Jacques Brel,
New York Dolls,
Joensuu 1685,
Banda Bassotti,
Lower 48,
The Smiths,
Loose Ends,
Interpol,
Rhythm & Sound,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Neu!,
Kenny Larkin,
The Fortunes,
The Durutti Column,
Laurel Aitken,
Kayak,
Barrington Levy,
Circle Jerks,
The Cramps,
Blake Baxter,
John Lydon,
Bootsy Collins,
Freddie Wadling,
Zapp,
Suicide,
Organ,
Andrew Hill,
Cybotron,
China Crisis,
Grauzone,
Sun City Girls,
Lucky Dragons,
Liliput,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.