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 Brazil and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 organ 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 Stereo Dub to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Porter Ricks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
Cameo,
Lalo Schifrin,
Slick Rick,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sister Nancy,
Au Pairs,
James White and The Blacks,
Dark Day,
The Motions,
Bobby Womack,
The Monks,
Livin' Joy,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Scratch Acid,
Jeff Mills,
X-Ray Spex,
Khruangbin,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Black Bananas,
Country Joe & The Fish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang of Four,
Derrick Morgan,
The Tremeloes,
The Happenings,
The Evens,
Boredoms,
Alison Limerick,
Gil Scott Heron,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Standells,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Roxette,
Vainqueur,
Terrestrial Tones,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jandek,
Pagans,
Max Romeo,
Porter Ricks,
Rapeman,
The Toasters,
Peter & Gordon,
Lightning Bolt,
Ohio Players,
John Foxx,
Tropical Tobacco,
David McCallum,
U.S. Maple,
The Litter,
Echospace,
Slave,
Sly & The Family Stone,
MDC,
Depeche Mode,
Sex Pistols,
John Cale,
The Fuzztones,
Faraquet,
Letta Mbulu,
The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins.
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.