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 Greece and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 arpeggiator 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 Heavy D & The Boyz to the rock 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 Magazine. All the underground hits.
All Wings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Cale record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Howard Jones,
Television Personalities,
Soft Machine,
Girls At Our Best!,
Audionom,
Gang Gang Dance,
The J.B.'s,
Funkadelic,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Grass Roots,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Eurythmics,
Cal Tjader,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
the Sonics,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Zero Boys,
The Raincoats,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ultra Naté,
The Mummies,
Unwound,
The Dead C,
Crime,
Black Sheep,
AZ,
Anakelly,
Iggy Pop,
Magazine,
Dead Boys,
Mandrill,
Drexciya,
B.T. Express,
Electric Prunes,
Television,
Bobby Womack,
Bizarre Inc.,
Q and Not U,
Sound Behaviour,
Rites of Spring,
Grandmaster Flash,
Marshall Jefferson,
In Retrospect,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Flipper,
New York Dolls,
LL Cool J,
The Smoke,
Ten City,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Human League,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Hashim,
The Sound,
Rosa Yemen,
Funky Four + One,
Lakeside,
Eli Mardock,
T.S.O.L.,
Idris Muhammad,
Amon Düül II,
Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls.
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.