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 Belize and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Wire to the punk 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 The Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Interpol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Idris Muhammad,
The Fall,
Harmonia,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Duran Duran,
the Soft Cell,
In Retrospect,
Roger Hodgson,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Mantronix,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Fugs,
Lou Reed,
Alton Ellis,
Amon Düül II,
Technova,
Ultimate Spinach,
8 Eyed Spy,
Hoover,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Move,
Sister Nancy,
the Bar-Kays,
Theoretical Girls,
Second Layer,
Average White Band,
Funkadelic,
Andrew Hill,
MDC,
Terrestrial Tones,
These Immortal Souls,
Babytalk,
Oneida,
Fatback Band,
Mr. Review,
Roy Ayers,
The Cure,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Das Ding,
Eric B and Rakim,
Janne Schatter,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Pop Group,
Michelle Simonal,
B.T. Express,
Neu!,
Dawn Penn,
Piero Umiliani,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Crash Course in Science,
The Blues Magoos,
Kenny Larkin,
K-Klass,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Grass Roots,
Essential Logic,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Alphaville,
Bizarre Inc.,
Mission of Burma,
Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu.
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.