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 Tajikistan and from Hong Kong.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Barclay James Harvest to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Lindisfarne. All the underground hits.
All Delon & Dalcan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
David Axelrod,
Laurel Aitken,
Flamin' Groovies,
Boz Scaggs,
Girls At Our Best!,
Jeff Lynne,
The Zeros,
Crime,
New Age Steppers,
The Evens,
Trumans Water,
Grandmaster Flash,
June of 44,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Michelle Simonal,
Bluetip,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Drexciya,
Adolescents,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jerry's Kids,
Alice Coltrane,
Lou Reed,
Nas,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Technova,
Heaven 17,
Television Personalities,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Donny Hathaway,
The Beau Brummels,
DNA,
Godley & Creme,
The Standells,
Altered Images,
Boredoms,
Archie Shepp,
Dorothy Ashby,
Morten Harket,
World's Most,
Q and Not U,
Fluxion,
Unrelated Segments,
Jimmy McGriff,
Glambeats Corp.,
Juan Atkins,
X-102,
Arcadia,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Toasters,
The Music Machine,
In Retrospect,
These Immortal Souls,
The Black Dice,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.