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 Serbia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Qualms to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Simply Red tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ten City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nas,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Mars,
Guru Guru,
Bronski Beat,
the Slits,
The Slackers,
E-Dancer,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Trumans Water,
Agitation Free,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Gladiators,
Kaleidoscope,
Rod Modell,
The New Christs,
Sparks,
Maurizio,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Marvin Gaye,
Tommy Roe,
Neu!,
Stiv Bators,
Lou Reed,
Bob Dylan,
Kas Product,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Trojans,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Nick Fraelich,
Suburban Knight,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Inner City,
Susan Cadogan,
Jerry's Kids,
Dawn Penn,
Dead Boys,
Public Enemy,
The Durutti Column,
Peter & Gordon,
Negative Approach,
Half Japanese,
The Five Americans,
the Soft Cell,
Ohio Players,
Donny Hathaway,
Cluster,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Babytalk,
The Cure,
Reagan Youth,
Sister Nancy,
Japan,
Bobby Sherman,
Agent Orange,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.