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 Malta and from Columbus.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Gian Franco Pienzio 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxette record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord 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?
Warsaw,
The Gories,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Star Department,
The Martian,
Toni Rubio,
Marcia Griffiths,
Chrome,
Dual Sessions,
Malaria!,
Khruangbin,
Nik Kershaw,
Technova,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
AZ,
Rites of Spring,
Section 25,
Isaac Hayes,
Sun Ra,
Yusef Lateef,
Ronnie Foster,
Matthew Bourne,
Suburban Knight,
Sun City Girls,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Shuggie Otis,
Magma,
David Bowie,
Patti Smith,
Delon & Dalcan,
Soul II Soul,
Whodini,
Essential Logic,
Aaron Thompson,
Absolute Body Control,
Howard Jones,
The Smiths,
Altered Images,
Yaz,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lee Hazlewood,
Animal Collective,
Magazine,
Moebius,
Kas Product,
Fat Boys,
Ultimate Spinach,
Brass Construction,
The Move,
Eden Ahbez,
Silicon Teens,
The Fall,
The Mummies,
Grey Daturas,
The Gap Band,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Eric Dolphy,
Hasil Adkins,
The Buckinghams,
Sex Pistols,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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.