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 Cyprus and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 guitar 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 The Gap Band to the funk 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 Buzzcocks. All the underground hits.
All Barbara Tucker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sound 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 güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Crooked Eye,
Gong,
Von Mondo,
Radiopuhelimet,
JFA,
Section 25,
Bronski Beat,
Nirvana,
Smog,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ludus,
Zapp,
Lebanon Hanover,
World's Most,
Hardrive,
Black Sheep,
Swell Maps,
Andrew Hill,
The Moody Blues,
Kurtis Blow,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Surgeon,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
This Heat,
Crash Course in Science,
Marmalade,
Inner City,
Don Cherry,
Joey Negro,
KRS-One,
Pussy Galore,
the Germs,
Kool Moe Dee,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Howard Jones,
Kevin Saunderson,
Underground Resistance,
Jacques Brel,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Durutti Column,
Susan Cadogan,
Nas,
Sonic Youth,
Motorama,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
the Slits,
Lee Hazlewood,
Desert Stars,
Albert Ayler,
Mandrill,
Neil Young,
Bauhaus,
Liliput,
Sugar Minott,
The Cowsills,
Spandau Ballet,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Joe Smooth,
Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow.
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.