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 Italy and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Simply Red to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Cymande. All the underground hits.
All Procol Harum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Alarm Clocks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Victims,
James White and The Blacks,
Letta Mbulu,
Audionom,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Joe Smooth,
Soul Sonic Force,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Groovy Waters,
H. Thieme,
Cluster,
Thompson Twins,
Matthew Bourne,
Zero Boys,
Marc Almond,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Franke,
a-ha,
Duran Duran,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Qualms,
Aswad,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Mars,
Cybotron,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Toni Rubio,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Heaven 17,
Ituana,
Oneida,
Blake Baxter,
The Saints,
Kaleidoscope,
The Busters,
Swell Maps,
The Dirtbombs,
The Leaves,
the Germs,
Don Cherry,
Jandek,
Sonny Sharrock,
Quadrant,
the Bar-Kays,
the Sonics,
Wasted Youth,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Names,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Josef K,
Clear Light,
Dual Sessions,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Peter and Kerry,
Chris & Cosey,
Black Flag,
Minnie Riperton,
Adolescents,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.