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 Seychelles and from Johannesburg.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Misunderstood. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence 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 dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Scan 7,
Arcadia,
Alison Limerick,
MC5,
Henry Cow,
Iggy Pop,
Yusef Lateef,
The Cramps,
K-Klass,
Black Moon,
Marc Almond,
The Fuzztones,
Joy Division,
Peter and Kerry,
Jimmy McGriff,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Yaz,
Television Personalities,
Aloha Tigers,
The Skatalites,
Harry Pussy,
Graham Central Station,
the Normal,
Carl Craig,
Glenn Branca,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Oblivians,
The Walker Brothers,
Lower 48,
Agitation Free,
The Fire Engines,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pharoah Sanders,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
FM Einheit,
The Gun Club,
Soul Sonic Force,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Seeds,
The Techniques,
Scrapy,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Fortunes,
Man Eating Sloth,
Jesper Dahlback,
Vladislav Delay,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Albert Ayler,
Skriet,
Mark Hollis,
Dawn Penn,
Gang Starr,
DNA,
Fatback Band,
Altered Images,
Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman.
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.