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 San Marino and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Bizarre Inc. to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Godley & Creme. All the underground hits.
All Hoover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Susan Cadogan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pet Shop Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABC,
Soul Sonic Force,
Juan Atkins,
Spoonie Gee,
Unrelated Segments,
The Evens,
K-Klass,
Cameo,
Model 500,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Janne Schatter,
Rotary Connection,
Bill Near,
The Doobie Brothers,
Amon Düül,
Q and Not U,
John Lydon,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Neon Judgement,
Skarface,
Scott Walker,
OOIOO,
The Blues Magoos,
New York Dolls,
Stockholm Monsters,
Khruangbin,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
the Association,
Vladislav Delay,
Pussy Galore,
Kurtis Blow,
the Slits,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Essential Logic,
Wire,
Derrick Morgan,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Angry Samoans,
The Motions,
Arab on Radar,
The Tremeloes,
Rapeman,
Rufus Thomas,
Ice-T,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
David Axelrod,
The Kinks,
Icehouse,
Al Stewart,
the Sonics,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joy Division,
the Soft Cell,
Loose Ends,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Piero Umiliani,
Throbbing Gristle,
Spandau Ballet,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Stooges,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
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.