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 Cape Verde and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
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 New Order to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Wings. All the underground hits.
All Agitation Free tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camouflage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Invisible,
Aural Exciters,
Supertramp,
Trumans Water,
Half Japanese,
Drexciya,
Traffic Nightmare,
Bob Dylan,
Fad Gadget,
New Age Steppers,
Monolake,
The Fall,
Robert Görl,
Robert Wyatt,
Alton Ellis,
The Music Machine,
The Fuzztones,
Ronan,
Q65,
The Monochrome Set,
Masters at Work,
Cymande,
Grauzone,
The Fire Engines,
MDC,
Brass Construction,
Graham Central Station,
Peter and Kerry,
Pulsallama,
Jeff Lynne,
Patti Smith,
Funky Four + One,
Y Pants,
Anakelly,
Hoover,
Pere Ubu,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
L. Decosne,
Hardrive,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Techniques,
Kerri Chandler,
Reagan Youth,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Agent Orange,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lyres,
Erykah Badu,
The Red Krayola,
Buzzcocks,
The Modern Lovers,
Carl Craig,
D'Angelo,
E-Dancer,
Negative Approach,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Procol Harum,
Scion,
Dennis Brown,
Harpers Bizarre,
Brothers Johnson,
Quadrant,
Guru Guru,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.