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 Denmark and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Deepchord to the funk 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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All Pole tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Selecter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cal Tjader record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sister Nancy,
Harmonia,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Quantec,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pole,
Alton Ellis,
The Fall,
Lebanon Hanover,
Public Enemy,
Camouflage,
Bobby Byrd,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
the Normal,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Idris Muhammad,
Nils Olav,
The Skatalites,
Nas,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Leaves,
Procol Harum,
FM Einheit,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Surgeon,
The Raincoats,
Rakim,
The Moody Blues,
The Names,
Gong,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Lightning Bolt,
Frankie Knuckles,
Smog,
Hashim,
L. Decosne,
Gerry Rafferty,
Section 25,
The Index,
Gabor Szabo,
DJ Sneak,
The Seeds,
Wire,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lower 48,
Alice Coltrane,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Offenders,
Royal Trux,
Los Fastidios,
The J.B.'s,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Urselle,
Magazine,
Deakin,
Aswad,
Spandau Ballet,
Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme.
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.