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 Tanzania and from Beijing.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 T.S.O.L.. All the underground hits.
All Depeche Mode tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
Liliput,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sam Rivers,
Terry Callier,
Intrusion,
Ken Boothe,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
D'Angelo,
Marine Girls,
Quadrant,
Lyres,
Bobby Byrd,
Junior Murvin,
Alphaville,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Amon Düül II,
Rotary Connection,
H. Thieme,
The Names,
Lou Christie,
Tres Demented,
FM Einheit,
Brick,
Shoche,
PIL,
Kerrie Biddell,
Basic Channel,
DJ Sneak,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ludus,
Quando Quango,
Dawn Penn,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Carl Craig,
The Music Machine,
The Fortunes,
Delon & Dalcan,
Dennis Brown,
Wings,
Pere Ubu,
Easy Going,
Moby Grape,
Saccharine Trust,
Siglo XX,
Colin Newman,
Marmalade,
Soul Sonic Force,
Underground Resistance,
X-102,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Erykah Badu,
Marvin Gaye,
Agent Orange,
The Neon Judgement,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Joyce Sims,
The Selecter,
Kenny Larkin,
The Angels of Light,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ohio Players,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.