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 Chad and from Edmonton.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Gang Gang Dance to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All The Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kevin Saunderson,
Mr. Review,
Desert Stars,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Beau Brummels,
Motorama,
UT,
Suburban Knight,
Yellowson,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
U.S. Maple,
Fluxion,
Dennis Brown,
Das Ding,
Subhumans,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Niagra,
The Mojo Men,
Altered Images,
The Smoke,
The Invisible,
Michelle Simonal,
Easy Going,
Rotary Connection,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Vladislav Delay,
Janne Schatter,
Japan,
The Cure,
Second Layer,
Soft Cell,
Funkadelic,
Ponytail,
The Buckinghams,
cv313,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Average White Band,
Liliput,
Moby Grape,
The Angels of Light,
EPMD,
F. McDonald,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Au Pairs,
Neil Young,
Derrick Morgan,
Supertramp,
Cameo,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Sound,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
kango's stein massive,
Wings,
Moss Icon,
CMW,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Model 500,
Minnie Riperton,
Lyres,
Sparks,
Oneida, Oneida, Oneida, Oneida.
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.