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 Romania and from Winnipeg.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Skriet to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Count Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
Radiohead,
Newcleus,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Section 25,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pulsallama,
Byron Stingily,
Roxy Music,
David Axelrod,
Matthew Halsall,
Bill Near,
Crime,
KRS-One,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bad Manners,
Franke,
Sun Ra,
Arab on Radar,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ponytail,
Kayak,
Fatback Band,
Amon Düül II,
PIL,
Angry Samoans,
Theoretical Girls,
K-Klass,
Isaac Hayes,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Frankie Knuckles,
Kerrie Biddell,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Fugs,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
DJ Sneak,
Wally Richardson,
Rakim,
Scrapy,
Godley & Creme,
Q65,
Boredoms,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Offenders,
Moebius,
Erasure,
Procol Harum,
Bob Dylan,
Ituana,
The Smiths,
Youth Brigade,
Jacques Brel,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Terry Callier,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pantaleimon,
Slave,
Television Personalities,
Agitation Free,
Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux.
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.