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 Azerbaijan and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Neu! to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Althea and Donna. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shuggie Otis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Simply Red,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Subhumans,
Cymande,
Country Teasers,
Ultravox,
La Düsseldorf,
Reagan Youth,
The Seeds,
Byron Stingily,
Ice-T,
Davy DMX,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Joe Finger,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bronski Beat,
Section 25,
Lindisfarne,
Girls At Our Best!,
Los Fastidios,
Ludus,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Kinks,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Grass Roots,
Desert Stars,
EPMD,
The Monochrome Set,
X-Ray Spex,
LL Cool J,
Maurizio,
Y Pants,
The Moleskins,
The Dead C,
Warsaw,
Joyce Sims,
Absolute Body Control,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Peter and Kerry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Theoretical Girls,
T. Rex,
Althea and Donna,
Eli Mardock,
Quando Quango,
Eurythmics,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Flipper,
The Barracudas,
U.S. Maple,
Colin Newman,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Yusef Lateef,
New Order,
Cameo,
Sun City Girls,
Eden Ahbez,
Mission of Burma,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Michelle Simonal,
Funkadelic,
Sight & Sound,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.