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 Guyana and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Subhumans to the disco 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 Slick Rick. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Los Fastidios record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythm & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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?
Roxy Music,
Underground Resistance,
Warren Ellis,
MC5,
Supertramp,
The Alarm Clocks,
Letta Mbulu,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sparks,
The Fuzztones,
Peter & Gordon,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bronski Beat,
Donald Byrd,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Silicon Teens,
Kool Moe Dee,
One Last Wish,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Faraquet,
Fela Kuti,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sex Pistols,
the Human League,
The Mummies,
The Techniques,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Los Fastidios,
Arab on Radar,
Jandek,
Tears for Fears,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Monks,
Big Daddy Kane,
Carl Craig,
Whodini,
Suburban Knight,
The Grass Roots,
Nas,
Delta 5,
Talk Talk,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Infiniti,
Public Image Ltd.,
Erykah Badu,
The Fall,
Television Personalities,
Idris Muhammad,
Gang of Four,
Peter and Kerry,
Matthew Halsall,
Sixth Finger,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Golliwogs,
Albert Ayler,
Oblivians,
Easy Going,
Electric Prunes,
Aloha Tigers,
Young Marble Giants,
Roxette,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Young Rascals,
the Swans, the Swans, the Swans, the Swans.
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.