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 Spain and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 arpeggiator 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 Swans to the rap 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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every It's A Beautiful Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joey Negro record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funkadelic,
Desert Stars,
The Dave Clark Five,
Dave Gahan,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Brand Nubian,
Jeff Lynne,
Boogie Down Productions,
Minor Threat,
Skriet,
Masters at Work,
Sparks,
The Sound,
Barclay James Harvest,
Tom Boy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bauhaus,
Y Pants,
Spoonie Gee,
Scion,
Johnny Osbourne,
Monks,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Scan 7,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Buckinghams,
The Modern Lovers,
Easy Going,
The Angels of Light,
Rosa Yemen,
Amon Düül II,
The Raincoats,
Joe Smooth,
Pharoah Sanders,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Second Layer,
Toni Rubio,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Amazonics,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Agitation Free,
Nik Kershaw,
Aswad,
Underground Resistance,
David Bowie,
Kenny Larkin,
Dead Boys,
Jimmy McGriff,
Echospace,
The Pop Group,
Tommy Roe,
Visage,
Ronnie Foster,
Laurel Aitken,
Davy DMX,
Roger Hodgson,
Livin' Joy,
Piero Umiliani,
ABBA,
Swell Maps,
Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine.
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.