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 Guinea and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 Toronto and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Jacques Brel to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 DJ Sneak. All the underground hits.
All Curtis Mayfield tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vainqueur record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Roxette,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Dead C,
Aural Exciters,
X-102,
Grauzone,
Marmalade,
The Move,
Tropical Tobacco,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Fugs,
The Star Department,
Prince Buster,
Sex Pistols,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Boz Scaggs,
The Evens,
Arab on Radar,
Rufus Thomas,
Ronnie Foster,
Chris Corsano,
Susan Cadogan,
Delon & Dalcan,
Roxy Music,
The Doors,
The Walker Brothers,
Big Daddy Kane,
Aloha Tigers,
Suicide,
LL Cool J,
This Heat,
The Leaves,
Eden Ahbez,
EPMD,
Barbara Tucker,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Eurythmics,
Todd Rundgren,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lou Christie,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Divine Comedy,
K-Klass,
the Slits,
Tommy Roe,
Kenny Larkin,
Throbbing Gristle,
Half Japanese,
Peter & Gordon,
Monolake,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mantronix,
Bill Near,
Tim Buckley,
D'Angelo,
Pylon,
Frankie Knuckles,
Jimmy McGriff,
The United States of America,
Zero Boys,
Donald Byrd,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.