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 Spain and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Eden Ahbez to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dirtbombs 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
Japan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Neil Young,
David Bowie,
The Skatalites,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Vladislav Delay,
Freddie Wadling,
Jacob Miller,
Hashim,
Fela Kuti,
Dark Day,
Lakeside,
Tomorrow,
Infiniti,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
X-102,
The Saints,
Slave,
Liliput,
Bobby Byrd,
The Doors,
Banda Bassotti,
Reagan Youth,
Parry Music,
Agitation Free,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sarah Menescal,
the Slits,
Negative Approach,
Newcleus,
Lou Reed,
Grauzone,
CMW,
B.T. Express,
Marcia Griffiths,
Soul II Soul,
Eric Dolphy,
Stiv Bators,
Electric Prunes,
Intrusion,
Derrick Morgan,
Peter & Gordon,
Niagra,
Byron Stingily,
Icehouse,
The Trojans,
Television Personalities,
The Shadows of Knight,
Mandrill,
The United States of America,
The Human League,
Jimmy McGriff,
Frankie Knuckles,
Steve Hackett,
Outsiders,
Junior Murvin,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Gories,
David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum.
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.