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 Saudi Arabia and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 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 Lalann to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gastr Del Sol. All the underground hits.
All Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quando Quango record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joy Division record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
EPMD,
Franke,
DJ Style,
John Holt,
Eve St. Jones,
Janne Schatter,
Banda Bassotti,
The United States of America,
Essential Logic,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Shadows of Knight,
Thee Headcoats,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bill Near,
Radiopuhelimet,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kayak,
Siglo XX,
Michelle Simonal,
Harry Pussy,
Fela Kuti,
Dawn Penn,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Desert Stars,
Chrome,
The Leaves,
48th St. Collective,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Drexciya,
Colin Newman,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kaleidoscope,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Stereo Dub,
The Vogues,
The Move,
a-ha,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bang On A Can,
Agitation Free,
David Axelrod,
Average White Band,
Robert Wyatt,
Television Personalities,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Aaron Thompson,
The Cramps,
Saccharine Trust,
The Invisible,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Anthony Braxton,
Absolute Body Control,
Camberwell Now,
Fear,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Girls At Our Best!,
X-101,
Moebius,
Marvin Gaye,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5.
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.