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 Vanuatu and from Taipei.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Todd Terry to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Altered Images 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mary Jane Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Accadde A,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
John Foxx,
DJ Sneak,
Das Ding,
Robert Hood,
Marshall Jefferson,
Derrick Morgan,
The Wake,
Shoche,
Ultravox,
Suburban Knight,
Aswad,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
David Axelrod,
Nik Kershaw,
Archie Shepp,
Liliput,
Basic Channel,
Bob Dylan,
Underground Resistance,
Severed Heads,
The Neon Judgement,
Warren Ellis,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Amon Düül II,
James White and The Blacks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Letta Mbulu,
Jacob Miller,
Royal Trux,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Big Daddy Kane,
Marine Girls,
Soft Cell,
Deadbeat,
Thompson Twins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Neu!,
Scion,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Offenders,
Terry Callier,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Spoonie Gee,
Robert Görl,
Maurizio,
Moby Grape,
The Walker Brothers,
Porter Ricks,
Bobby Sherman,
Unrelated Segments,
Sandy B,
Mandrill,
Leonard Cohen,
Yellowson,
Cal Tjader,
Hashim,
Electric Prunes,
The Trojans,
the Normal, the Normal, the Normal, the Normal.
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.