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 Uganda and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 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 Joe Smooth to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Slackers. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Sherman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fela Kuti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sällskapet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alphaville,
Ponytail,
Todd Rundgren,
Kurtis Blow,
Yazoo,
Harmonia,
Yusef Lateef,
Ronan,
Jimmy McGriff,
Talk Talk,
Howard Jones,
Intrusion,
Lebanon Hanover,
Eddi Front,
The Human League,
Sister Nancy,
Flipper,
Quando Quango,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Scan 7,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Techniques,
Liliput,
Wolf Eyes,
Erasure,
Joy Division,
Magazine,
Pole,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Colin Newman,
Cameo,
The Saints,
Marmalade,
Scientists,
David McCallum,
Silicon Teens,
the Swans,
Sight & Sound,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Television,
Kenny Larkin,
Josef K,
The Pop Group,
Cabaret Voltaire,
the Association,
Soft Cell,
The Motions,
PIL,
Marc Almond,
In Retrospect,
The Happenings,
The Flesh Eaters,
John Foxx,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Groovy Waters,
David Axelrod,
The Move,
Tim Buckley,
Metal Thangz,
Dennis Brown,
Black Sheep,
Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick.
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.