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 Benin and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All Theoretical Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mad Mike 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Wally Richardson,
Average White Band,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Count Five,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Black Moon,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Steve Hackett,
Girls At Our Best!,
LL Cool J,
Bluetip,
The Dead C,
Stereo Dub,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Hasil Adkins,
Icehouse,
Fugazi,
The Motions,
Piero Umiliani,
Barclay James Harvest,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Scrapy,
The J.B.'s,
Make Up,
Gang Starr,
Bootsy Collins,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Skaos,
Shuggie Otis,
Oneida,
Kevin Saunderson,
Amon Düül II,
The Associates,
Public Enemy,
Minnie Riperton,
Chris & Cosey,
Chrome,
Ludus,
Young Marble Giants,
Terrestrial Tones,
New Age Steppers,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Move,
The Skatalites,
Delta 5,
Peter and Kerry,
David McCallum,
Black Sheep,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Khruangbin,
Derrick Morgan,
Albert Ayler,
Swell Maps,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
X-102,
Jeff Mills,
Aaron Thompson,
Unwound,
World's Most, World's Most, World's Most, World's Most.
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.