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 Japan and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Morten Harket to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Ultimate Spinach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Juan Atkins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mojo Men,
Leonard Cohen,
Rapeman,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
DJ Style,
Whodini,
The Toasters,
Japan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ultravox,
The Human League,
FM Einheit,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sound Behaviour,
Skriet,
X-101,
Mars,
Soulsonic Force,
The Music Machine,
Alice Coltrane,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Sound,
The Grass Roots,
Gerry Rafferty,
Panda Bear,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lalo Schifrin,
Quantec,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Idris Muhammad,
Barrington Levy,
Wings,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Dead Boys,
June Days,
Susan Cadogan,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Jerry's Kids,
The Smoke,
Dave Gahan,
Lightning Bolt,
Grauzone,
Audionom,
Danielle Patucci,
Camouflage,
Mantronix,
Metal Thangz,
Main Source,
Marshall Jefferson,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sugar Minott,
Gang Gang Dance,
John Coltrane,
H. Thieme,
Albert Ayler,
Arcadia,
John Cale,
The Pop Group,
Nick Fraelich,
Black Moon,
Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade.
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.