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 Croatia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the snare 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 Tomorrow to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Frankie Knuckles. All the underground hits.
All Hoover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eli Mardock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Doors,
Surgeon,
Aswad,
Royal Trux,
Black Flag,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Durutti Column,
Jawbox,
Bootsy Collins,
10cc,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Davy DMX,
Excepter,
James White and The Blacks,
Throbbing Gristle,
Dead Boys,
Easy Going,
Kaleidoscope,
The Blues Magoos,
Ralphi Rosario,
the Slits,
Vainqueur,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Grass Roots,
The Star Department,
Andrew Hill,
Shuggie Otis,
The Kinks,
Ponytail,
Black Moon,
Smog,
Soul Sonic Force,
Mo-Dettes,
Sixth Finger,
Dawn Penn,
Eric Dolphy,
Lalann,
Young Marble Giants,
the Sonics,
The Techniques,
Alison Limerick,
David Axelrod,
The Gap Band,
Amazonics,
Joe Smooth,
Subhumans,
Mars,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Residents,
Fat Boys,
Joe Finger,
the Human League,
Grauzone,
The Dirtbombs,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pharoah Sanders,
Quadrant,
Kurtis Blow,
Sam Rivers,
KRS-One,
Hoover,
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow, 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.