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 Angola and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Niagra to the jazz 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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marmalade 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
Kevin Saunderson,
Amazonics,
David Bowie,
Girls At Our Best!,
Oblivians,
Suicide,
Frankie Knuckles,
Matthew Halsall,
The Offenders,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Easy Going,
Avey Tare,
Con Funk Shun,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lightning Bolt,
Roy Ayers,
Bush Tetras,
Marvin Gaye,
Nation of Ulysses,
Derrick May,
The Smiths,
The Neon Judgement,
Icehouse,
8 Eyed Spy,
Whodini,
Yellowson,
The Motions,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Model 500,
Banda Bassotti,
Aloha Tigers,
Jerry's Kids,
The Fortunes,
The Trojans,
Chrome,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Anakelly,
Fad Gadget,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Eric B and Rakim,
Marmalade,
The Shadows of Knight,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Happenings,
Cybotron,
John Cale,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bootsy Collins,
A Certain Ratio,
John Foxx,
the Human League,
Stiv Bators,
Intrusion,
Camberwell Now,
Liliput,
The Evens,
JFA,
Graham Central Station,
Lakeside,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.