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 Sweden and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Human League to the techno 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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Real Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yusef Lateef record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Von Mondo,
The Real Kids,
Q and Not U,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Flipper,
Oblivians,
10cc,
Desert Stars,
New Order,
the Slits,
Leonard Cohen,
Patti Smith,
a-ha,
OOIOO,
Cal Tjader,
Henry Cow,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Rakim,
Lee Hazlewood,
La Düsseldorf,
Eli Mardock,
Basic Channel,
Blake Baxter,
Sonic Youth,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Panda Bear,
Darondo,
Infiniti,
Negative Approach,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Monochrome Set,
Yellowson,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Neon Judgement,
Jacob Miller,
Peter and Kerry,
Ultravox,
Public Image Ltd.,
Erykah Badu,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Letta Mbulu,
Slave,
Man Eating Sloth,
R.M.O.,
The New Christs,
Godley & Creme,
Fluxion,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Camouflage,
Camberwell Now,
Ohio Players,
The Index,
Kayak,
Ornette Coleman,
The Buckinghams,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lyres,
Moby Grape,
Lindisfarne,
Marcia Griffiths,
Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats.
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.