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 Angola and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 cv313 to the rap 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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All The Angels of Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Duran Duran record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Sheep,
Kenny Larkin,
The Skatalites,
Arcadia,
Frankie Knuckles,
Deakin,
The Residents,
Blake Baxter,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Freddie Wadling,
The Barracudas,
Japan,
UT,
Marshall Jefferson,
Neil Young,
The Kinks,
Scott Walker,
The Gladiators,
Sällskapet,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Y Pants,
Gerry Rafferty,
A Certain Ratio,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Electric Prunes,
Adolescents,
Carl Craig,
Rekid,
Moby Grape,
Sugar Minott,
Scion,
Fad Gadget,
Lungfish,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Girls At Our Best!,
Avey Tare,
Gang Green,
Royal Trux,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Association,
Prince Buster,
Dark Day,
Average White Band,
Cybotron,
Bobby Womack,
Funkadelic,
Roxette,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Angels of Light,
The Doobie Brothers,
Warsaw,
The Gories,
cv313,
Icehouse,
Youth Brigade,
Masters at Work,
The Gun Club,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Make Up,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.