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 Macedonia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 arpeggiator 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 The Searchers to the crunk 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 the Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eyeless In Gaza record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
Fat Boys,
The Angels of Light,
Blake Baxter,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Amon Düül,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Grandmaster Flash,
Flamin' Groovies,
Spandau Ballet,
K-Klass,
Marine Girls,
Idris Muhammad,
LL Cool J,
Lalann,
Erasure,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lucky Dragons,
Symarip,
Ultra Naté,
Rhythm & Sound,
Frankie Knuckles,
Roy Ayers,
Moebius,
Loose Ends,
Country Teasers,
Hashim,
The Cure,
Brothers Johnson,
Agitation Free,
Andrew Hill,
Soul Sonic Force,
OOIOO,
The Moleskins,
Eric Copeland,
Clear Light,
The Human League,
Lindisfarne,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Magazine,
Arthur Verocai,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Boz Scaggs,
Gichy Dan,
Connie Case,
Lebanon Hanover,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Red Krayola,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The J.B.'s,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Barbara Tucker,
The Skatalites,
Kurtis Blow,
Stetsasonic,
Soulsonic Force,
Darondo,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Jimmy McGriff,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.