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 Estonia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Black Bananas to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All Stockholm Monsters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultra Naté record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Al Stewart,
Sister Nancy,
Circle Jerks,
The Fire Engines,
Stiv Bators,
MC5,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Blancmange,
Metal Thangz,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Leaves,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Man Parrish,
Lou Christie,
New York Dolls,
New Order,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Crispy Ambulance,
Darondo,
The Selecter,
Y Pants,
Eric Dolphy,
Ralphi Rosario,
Public Image Ltd.,
Joe Smooth,
Marshall Jefferson,
Severed Heads,
Tom Boy,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Camouflage,
Marcia Griffiths,
Altered Images,
Theoretical Girls,
Idris Muhammad,
The Litter,
Susan Cadogan,
The Black Dice,
The United States of America,
David Axelrod,
Joe Finger,
Skarface,
Suicide,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Brick,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Arcadia,
The Happenings,
Drexciya,
Rufus Thomas,
Stereo Dub,
The Fortunes,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Knickerbockers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Black Pus,
Prince Buster,
Graham Central Station,
Youth Brigade,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Scion,
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.