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 Lesotho and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Gichy Dan to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 a-ha. All the underground hits.
All Bush Tetras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Colin Newman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Depeche Mode,
John Foxx,
the Slits,
Flipper,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sparks,
Barclay James Harvest,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Music Machine,
Soft Machine,
Roger Hodgson,
Electric Light Orchestra,
10cc,
Procol Harum,
Max Romeo,
New Age Steppers,
Quantec,
Kerri Chandler,
Quando Quango,
Aswad,
Ponytail,
Chris & Cosey,
Lee Hazlewood,
Desert Stars,
Andrew Hill,
Angry Samoans,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Tommy Roe,
These Immortal Souls,
Neil Young,
Eric Dolphy,
The Sonics,
K-Klass,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Zeros,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Barbara Tucker,
Liliput,
John Cale,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Slackers,
The Vogues,
Peter & Gordon,
Technova,
Brass Construction,
Bizarre Inc.,
Delon & Dalcan,
Alton Ellis,
The Fire Engines,
Bad Manners,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bobby Byrd,
The Saints,
Motorama,
Mars,
Simply Red,
Echospace,
Alphaville,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
X-Ray Spex,
The Smoke,
The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators.
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.