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 Nepal and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 David McCallum to the funk 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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonny Sharrock,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Negative Approach,
Sound Behaviour,
Sonic Youth,
Dave Gahan,
Soul II Soul,
JFA,
the Association,
Bobby Byrd,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Absolute Body Control,
Dead Boys,
Babytalk,
The Moleskins,
World's Most,
Intrusion,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
AZ,
Joey Negro,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Heaven 17,
Joyce Sims,
K-Klass,
Rapeman,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ituana,
The Monks,
Interpol,
Sight & Sound,
Suburban Knight,
Vainqueur,
Avey Tare,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Brass Construction,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
8 Eyed Spy,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Black Bananas,
Parry Music,
Al Stewart,
Chris & Cosey,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Birthday Party,
Radiohead,
Laurel Aitken,
Moebius,
Curtis Mayfield,
Oblivians,
Fela Kuti,
D'Angelo,
The Tremeloes,
Crispian St. Peters,
Simply Red,
New Age Steppers,
Wally Richardson,
John Coltrane,
Franke,
Bobby Sherman,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Metal Thangz,
The Music Machine,
Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun.
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.