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 Denmark and from Shanghai.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Guru Guru to the funk 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 The Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a K-Klass record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Wells,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scott Walker,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
China Crisis,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Scan 7,
Sun Ra,
The Selecter,
David Bowie,
Kurtis Blow,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Tim Buckley,
Visage,
10cc,
Yellowson,
R.M.O.,
Rites of Spring,
Maleditus Sound,
Crime,
Terrestrial Tones,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Flesh Eaters,
Neil Young,
Minny Pops,
Cheater Slicks,
Crash Course in Science,
Smog,
Con Funk Shun,
Danielle Patucci,
The Divine Comedy,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Curtis Mayfield,
New Order,
Jawbox,
Warren Ellis,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kayak,
The Leaves,
The Techniques,
Underground Resistance,
Grauzone,
Half Japanese,
Cluster,
The United States of America,
The Pop Group,
Television Personalities,
The Sound,
John Lydon,
Sex Pistols,
Cybotron,
Connie Case,
The Doors,
These Immortal Souls,
Bad Manners,
Blake Baxter,
Henry Cow,
Japan,
John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane.
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.