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 Equatorial Guinea and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Supertramp to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All The Barracudas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Inner City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ponytail,
Mars,
Yazoo,
Underground Resistance,
The Names,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tres Demented,
Joensuu 1685,
Sugar Minott,
Swell Maps,
The Toasters,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pantytec,
The Invisible,
Todd Terry,
Marmalade,
Black Flag,
Barbara Tucker,
Flash Fearless,
Davy DMX,
Derrick Morgan,
Lower 48,
The Moleskins,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Velvet Underground,
The Stooges,
Royal Trux,
Delta 5,
One Last Wish,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Slackers,
U.S. Maple,
kango's stein massive,
Chrome,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bauhaus,
The Standells,
Crispy Ambulance,
Stereo Dub,
Wasted Youth,
Reagan Youth,
Black Moon,
Pharoah Sanders,
Dead Boys,
Sun City Girls,
Young Marble Giants,
Youth Brigade,
Procol Harum,
Monks,
Byron Stingily,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Mary Jane Girls,
Jawbox,
Interpol,
Pulsallama,
Flamin' Groovies,
the Slits,
Ituana,
Simply Red,
R.M.O.,
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.