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 Tonga and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Cybotron to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Wells record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Newcleus,
Radio Birdman,
Gregory Isaacs,
Funky Four + One,
Alphaville,
Pantaleimon,
Sun Ra,
The Searchers,
Young Marble Giants,
The Kinks,
Slave,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Monolake,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Durutti Column,
Roger Hodgson,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Yusef Lateef,
Eddi Front,
Man Parrish,
Matthew Halsall,
The Stooges,
The Divine Comedy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Deepchord,
Symarip,
Los Fastidios,
Delon & Dalcan,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eurythmics,
Joe Finger,
Television,
Steve Hackett,
Lalann,
Audionom,
Sister Nancy,
New Order,
Sugar Minott,
Fad Gadget,
MDC,
Jacob Miller,
Arab on Radar,
China Crisis,
The Modern Lovers,
Aswad,
Gong,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bauhaus,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
ABC,
Cal Tjader,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Marmalade,
Derrick Morgan,
These Immortal Souls,
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.