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 Tunisia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin 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 Colin Newman to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All The Busters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul Sonic Force,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ice-T,
Arcadia,
B.T. Express,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Brand Nubian,
Big Daddy Kane,
One Last Wish,
Eddi Front,
Morten Harket,
Skarface,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Juan Atkins,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Cal Tjader,
Massinfluence,
The Flesh Eaters,
Gastr Del Sol,
Derrick Morgan,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bill Wells,
Todd Terry,
Girls At Our Best!,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Index,
Stereo Dub,
The Gap Band,
June of 44,
The Mojo Men,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Marc Almond,
48th St. Collective,
The Divine Comedy,
Peter & Gordon,
Alison Limerick,
Dave Gahan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gang Green,
Section 25,
The Grass Roots,
Jacob Miller,
Nation of Ulysses,
Rod Modell,
The Detroit Cobras,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Electric Prunes,
Susan Cadogan,
Ornette Coleman,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Alton Ellis,
Funkadelic,
Stiv Bators,
Eurythmics,
The Wake,
John Lydon,
Cameo,
Aswad,
F. McDonald,
The Moody Blues,
Todd Rundgren,
Talk Talk,
The Standells, The Standells, The Standells, The Standells.
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.