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 Netherlands and from Copenhagen.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 rhodes 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 Niagra to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pretty Things record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arcadia,
Letta Mbulu,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Girls At Our Best!,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jesper Dahlback,
Gabor Szabo,
John Lydon,
Peter & Gordon,
Ice-T,
Alice Coltrane,
Kas Product,
John Cale,
Radiopuhelimet,
Marmalade,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Nas,
The Buckinghams,
World's Most,
Young Marble Giants,
The Real Kids,
James White and The Blacks,
Bang On A Can,
Alison Limerick,
Schoolly D,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Massinfluence,
Man Parrish,
L. Decosne,
Lindisfarne,
Todd Terry,
Albert Ayler,
Visage,
Sixth Finger,
Judy Mowatt,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Skaos,
Faraquet,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marine Girls,
Malaria!,
Minny Pops,
Sex Pistols,
Derrick May,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Toasters,
Ultravox,
Dorothy Ashby,
Motorama,
Wire,
Avey Tare,
Darondo,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rotary Connection,
Isaac Hayes,
Alphaville,
Matthew Bourne,
Kaleidoscope,
Clear Light,
Maurizio,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Tears for Fears,
The Gories, The Gories, The Gories, The Gories.
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.