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 Cape Verde and from Seoul.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All De La Soul & Jungle Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scan 7 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rekid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pierre Henry,
The Invisible,
The Wake,
Alice Coltrane,
Gang Starr,
Fugazi,
Dead Boys,
The Smiths,
Alton Ellis,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Eli Mardock,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Marshall Jefferson,
Essential Logic,
The Fugs,
Moby Grape,
Bush Tetras,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
PIL,
Cameo,
CMW,
Motorama,
Soul Sonic Force,
Todd Rundgren,
Max Romeo,
Janne Schatter,
Wally Richardson,
Sex Pistols,
Zapp,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
K-Klass,
Public Image Ltd.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
John Lydon,
The Electric Prunes,
Shuggie Otis,
Derrick May,
Scratch Acid,
Jawbox,
Soulsonic Force,
Danielle Patucci,
Junior Murvin,
Intrusion,
Sonny Sharrock,
Man Eating Sloth,
Juan Atkins,
Hardrive,
KRS-One,
The Saints,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Parry Music,
The Fortunes,
Ultra Naté,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ronnie Foster,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Buckinghams,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Count Five,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.