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 Denmark and from Tokyo.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the marimba 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 Kaleidoscope to the rap 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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Rhythm & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blackbyrds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Association record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Deakin,
World's Most,
Alphaville,
The Five Americans,
Danielle Patucci,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Buckinghams,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ponytail,
Arcadia,
Howard Jones,
Godley & Creme,
Sonic Youth,
The Fire Engines,
Dave Gahan,
John Foxx,
Jeff Mills,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Velvet Underground,
Tomorrow,
Rhythm & Sound,
Babytalk,
Kurtis Blow,
Ohio Players,
Ituana,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
This Heat,
The Knickerbockers,
Delta 5,
The Fall,
The Doobie Brothers,
Slick Rick,
Eden Ahbez,
Animal Collective,
Carl Craig,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
David Bowie,
Kool Moe Dee,
KRS-One,
Amon Düül,
Das Ding,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Fluxion,
Michelle Simonal,
Gerry Rafferty,
Brothers Johnson,
The Invisible,
The Slackers,
David Axelrod,
Minny Pops,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Thompson Twins,
Quadrant,
The Black Dice,
Zapp,
Zero Boys,
Symarip,
The Dave Clark Five,
Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force.
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.