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 Haiti and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Gregory Isaacs to the funk 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 Parry Music. All the underground hits.
All Beasts of Bourbon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blancmange record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Negative Approach,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Depeche Mode,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Move,
Fad Gadget,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Bang On A Can,
Delon & Dalcan,
John Foxx,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Matthew Halsall,
Essential Logic,
Matthew Bourne,
Hasil Adkins,
Erasure,
Aloha Tigers,
Sonic Youth,
Funkadelic,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Nils Olav,
The Victims,
Deadbeat,
Ituana,
The Offenders,
Blancmange,
Amon Düül,
Cymande,
Average White Band,
Brass Construction,
Henry Cow,
Soul II Soul,
Roxy Music,
Crispy Ambulance,
Anakelly,
The Selecter,
F. McDonald,
Grauzone,
ABBA,
Japan,
The Saints,
Parry Music,
the Slits,
Glambeats Corp.,
Mr. Review,
Maleditus Sound,
Tears for Fears,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Howard Jones,
The Young Rascals,
Josef K,
Johnny Osbourne,
Amazonics,
Morten Harket,
Radio Birdman,
Popol Vuh,
Trumans Water,
Gastr Del Sol,
Camberwell Now,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.