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 Laos and from Glasgow.
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 Lyon and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 rhodes 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim to the techno 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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All John Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kurtis Blow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alphaville,
Neu!,
Delta 5,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joe Finger,
Alton Ellis,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Wally Richardson,
the Association,
Technova,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Monolake,
Brass Construction,
the Bar-Kays,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Vogues,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Minny Pops,
The Angels of Light,
Michelle Simonal,
The Raincoats,
Skaos,
The Associates,
The Gladiators,
LL Cool J,
Surgeon,
Barry Ungar,
The Golliwogs,
One Last Wish,
The Slackers,
Ken Boothe,
Babytalk,
Todd Terry,
The Last Poets,
The Count Five,
Delon & Dalcan,
Harmonia,
Au Pairs,
Alison Limerick,
Bobby Womack,
Kerrie Biddell,
Guru Guru,
Prince Buster,
Spandau Ballet,
MC5,
The Invisible,
Marmalade,
Unrelated Segments,
Schoolly D,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gabor Szabo,
Todd Rundgren,
Black Flag,
Cheater Slicks,
Lucky Dragons,
The Leaves,
Adolescents,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Litter,
the Normal,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bill Wells,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.