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 Colombia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Frankie Knuckles. All the underground hits.
All Excepter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Durutti Column,
The Red Krayola,
Morten Harket,
Mandrill,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alton Ellis,
Yazoo,
Scientists,
Pylon,
The Music Machine,
Minny Pops,
The Dead C,
World's Most,
Hoover,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jandek,
Warren Ellis,
Cybotron,
Bizarre Inc.,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sound Behaviour,
The Cowsills,
New York Dolls,
Agitation Free,
Vainqueur,
Ituana,
Slave,
Dual Sessions,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lou Christie,
Drive Like Jehu,
Circle Jerks,
Letta Mbulu,
Depeche Mode,
Television Personalities,
Toni Rubio,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kerri Chandler,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Detroit Cobras,
Marmalade,
Rites of Spring,
The Kinks,
Bill Wells,
Skriet,
The Busters,
Pantaleimon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Monolake,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Mad Mike,
Swans,
Crooked Eye,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Can,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Make Up,
Reagan Youth,
The Smiths,
Spandau Ballet,
Qualms,
Aaron Thompson,
DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak.
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.