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 Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 spring reverb 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 The Toasters to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Toni Rubio 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yaz,
Dawn Penn,
Johnny Clarke,
Camberwell Now,
Zero Boys,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Alice Coltrane,
Heaven 17,
Malaria!,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Can,
MC5,
Ponytail,
Kenny Larkin,
Faraquet,
F. McDonald,
New Order,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Toasters,
The Human League,
Inner City,
Liliput,
Sister Nancy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jimmy McGriff,
Second Layer,
Cybotron,
Hardrive,
Gang Gang Dance,
Adolescents,
The Monochrome Set,
Qualms,
The United States of America,
Todd Terry,
Desert Stars,
Godley & Creme,
Underground Resistance,
Thompson Twins,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jacob Miller,
Guru Guru,
Make Up,
Al Stewart,
Lucky Dragons,
Goldenarms,
Dual Sessions,
Agitation Free,
The American Breed,
Nirvana,
Charles Mingus,
Flamin' Groovies,
Howard Jones,
Shoche,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rod Modell,
Swell Maps,
Lalann,
Y Pants,
Marine Girls,
Moby Grape,
Electric Prunes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.