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 Bolivia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the 808 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 Deakin to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All Schoolly D tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pop Group record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sparks,
Grey Daturas,
Joensuu 1685,
Royal Trux,
AZ,
Joy Division,
Blancmange,
Tom Boy,
Erykah Badu,
Ice-T,
Tomorrow,
One Last Wish,
Ludus,
Deadbeat,
Jeff Mills,
Vainqueur,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Junior Murvin,
Johnny Osbourne,
X-Ray Spex,
The Monks,
Bronski Beat,
Drexciya,
Smog,
Skarface,
D'Angelo,
Marmalade,
Negative Approach,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Cowsills,
Cluster,
Public Enemy,
Schoolly D,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Vogues,
Scientists,
Scion,
Von Mondo,
Cybotron,
Dawn Penn,
K-Klass,
Kayak,
Wally Richardson,
Minor Threat,
David McCallum,
Donald Byrd,
Index,
Easy Going,
Sight & Sound,
Unrelated Segments,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Half Japanese,
Eve St. Jones,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Names,
Spoonie Gee,
The Blues Magoos,
The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks.
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.