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 Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Fuzztones to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cluster 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eurythmics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Morten Harket,
Marshall Jefferson,
Agent Orange,
48th St. Collective,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Hasil Adkins,
The Music Machine,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lindisfarne,
Duran Duran,
Cecil Taylor,
Minny Pops,
Slave,
Sex Pistols,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Dawn Penn,
Arab on Radar,
the Human League,
The Fire Engines,
Warren Ellis,
Stiv Bators,
Zero Boys,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Suburban Knight,
Lungfish,
The Searchers,
Michelle Simonal,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Todd Terry,
Lyres,
Au Pairs,
FM Einheit,
Stockholm Monsters,
Minor Threat,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Laurel Aitken,
New Order,
Gang Green,
Ronan,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Public Image Ltd.,
Yazoo,
Josef K,
Deakin,
The Slits,
Deadbeat,
OOIOO,
The Mojo Men,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sound Behaviour,
Bill Wells,
John Lydon,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Index,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.
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.