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 El Salvador and from Jakarta.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Ken Boothe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Depeche Mode record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Music Machine,
Oblivians,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Laurel Aitken,
Donald Byrd,
Marvin Gaye,
Zero Boys,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Yaz,
Connie Case,
Television,
Heaven 17,
Gregory Isaacs,
Negative Approach,
Todd Rundgren,
Gang Gang Dance,
Wasted Youth,
The Smiths,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Electric Prunes,
The Angels of Light,
Peter and Kerry,
Los Fastidios,
The Young Rascals,
Parry Music,
L. Decosne,
Grandmaster Flash,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Moody Blues,
Amon Düül II,
Minor Threat,
Chris Corsano,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Cameo,
Suicide,
Babytalk,
Rapeman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sight & Sound,
Barclay James Harvest,
ABC,
Arcadia,
Massinfluence,
Motorama,
Crash Course in Science,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Joy Division,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Theoretical Girls,
Popol Vuh,
Little Man,
David McCallum,
Janne Schatter,
FM Einheit,
Marine Girls,
Schoolly D,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Whodini,
a-ha,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
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.