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 Togo and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Happenings to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Jacques Brel. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rapeman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Ludus,
Parry Music,
Scratch Acid,
The Toasters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Leonard Cohen,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Can,
Sixth Finger,
Peter & Gordon,
Radiopuhelimet,
Hasil Adkins,
Donald Byrd,
Dave Gahan,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Seeds,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Durutti Column,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Liliput,
Arcadia,
Surgeon,
Quadrant,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Marc Almond,
Curtis Mayfield,
Groovy Waters,
Tommy Roe,
Black Moon,
the Normal,
Juan Atkins,
8 Eyed Spy,
Neu!,
Man Eating Sloth,
John Holt,
Ralphi Rosario,
Wings,
Todd Rundgren,
Aloha Tigers,
The Skatalites,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Albert Ayler,
Morten Harket,
Danielle Patucci,
Roxette,
Y Pants,
Black Sheep,
Spoonie Gee,
Joey Negro,
Tim Buckley,
Rekid,
Yazoo,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Barracudas,
Ponytail,
The Electric Prunes,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.