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 Belarus and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the theremin 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 8 Eyed Spy to the grunge 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 Malaria!. All the underground hits.
All Nation of Ulysses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marc Almond record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Style,
David Axelrod,
D'Angelo,
Underground Resistance,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Eric Copeland,
Das Ding,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sandy B,
The Monochrome Set,
Agitation Free,
Camouflage,
Depeche Mode,
Alice Coltrane,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Buzzcocks,
Marmalade,
Camberwell Now,
Pagans,
Mark Hollis,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Maleditus Sound,
F. McDonald,
Curtis Mayfield,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Radio Birdman,
Maurizio,
The Litter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ohio Players,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Skriet,
L. Decosne,
The Wake,
Accadde A,
AZ,
Stereo Dub,
Tropical Tobacco,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Crime,
Youth Brigade,
The Barracudas,
Lungfish,
Visage,
Lou Reed,
Roger Hodgson,
CMW,
Wally Richardson,
Bob Dylan,
Dead Boys,
Fugazi,
Lebanon Hanover,
Hashim,
Los Fastidios,
Gong,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
UT,
Yellowson,
The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America.
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.