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 Yemen and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 oboe 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 The Vogues to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 PIL. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oblivians record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Absolute Body Control,
DJ Style,
Rufus Thomas,
Jacques Brel,
Nils Olav,
Boogie Down Productions,
Wasted Youth,
Andrew Hill,
Alton Ellis,
Public Image Ltd.,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Man Eating Sloth,
Jerry's Kids,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Liliput,
Traffic Nightmare,
Robert Görl,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gastr Del Sol,
Cal Tjader,
Connie Case,
B.T. Express,
Monks,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Mo-Dettes,
Guru Guru,
The Walker Brothers,
Theoretical Girls,
Susan Cadogan,
Lungfish,
Eric Dolphy,
Procol Harum,
Flash Fearless,
Sun City Girls,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sugar Minott,
June Days,
The Sonics,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
John Cale,
Mission of Burma,
Pole,
Barbara Tucker,
Los Fastidios,
Robert Wyatt,
Pulsallama,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Harry Pussy,
Marmalade,
Technova,
Mars,
Juan Atkins,
Pagans,
Radio Birdman,
The Motions,
Thompson Twins,
Swans,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.