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 East Timor and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Johannesburg.
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 808 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 LL Cool J to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Graham Central Station tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Lynne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
Hashim,
Electric Prunes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lindisfarne,
The Walker Brothers,
Archie Shepp,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Stiv Bators,
Rosa Yemen,
The Index,
48th St. Collective,
Jerry Gold Smith,
the Swans,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Inner City,
U.S. Maple,
The Sonics,
X-101,
Easy Going,
Lungfish,
Davy DMX,
Neil Young,
8 Eyed Spy,
Tomorrow,
Bootsy Collins,
Neu!,
Graham Central Station,
Rakim,
Pharoah Sanders,
Angry Samoans,
Cal Tjader,
Todd Rundgren,
The Modern Lovers,
Banda Bassotti,
Wasted Youth,
Maleditus Sound,
UT,
Bronski Beat,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gabor Szabo,
Grey Daturas,
Sonny Sharrock,
Eddi Front,
Outsiders,
Vladislav Delay,
MC5,
Eve St. Jones,
Connie Case,
Joy Division,
The Knickerbockers,
Metal Thangz,
Bobby Byrd,
Joyce Sims,
Peter and Kerry,
Colin Newman,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Brand Nubian,
Oblivians,
Soft Machine,
Juan Atkins,
Henry Cow,
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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.