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 United Kingdom and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Grandmaster Flash to the funk 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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Ten City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lee Hazlewood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moebius record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Lakeside,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Depeche Mode,
EPMD,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Jesper Dahlback,
a-ha,
Fatback Band,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gil Scott Heron,
Mantronix,
Pantytec,
Technova,
Panda Bear,
The Trojans,
Derrick Morgan,
Q and Not U,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Shuggie Otis,
Liliput,
Scratch Acid,
Electric Prunes,
David McCallum,
Tommy Roe,
La Düsseldorf,
Monks,
Johnny Osbourne,
These Immortal Souls,
Joy Division,
Eddi Front,
Alice Coltrane,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Funky Four + One,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Grass Roots,
Vladislav Delay,
Frankie Knuckles,
Soft Machine,
Masters at Work,
Roger Hodgson,
The Associates,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Count Five,
Boredoms,
Curtis Mayfield,
Procol Harum,
The Residents,
Chris & Cosey,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Matthew Halsall,
Cluster,
The Fire Engines,
The Wake,
Morten Harket,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Heaven 17,
Avey Tare,
Patti Smith,
Chris Corsano,
E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer.
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.