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 Liechtenstein and from Johannesburg.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Main Source to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Frankie Knuckles. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tommy Roe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Max Romeo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Nation of Ulysses,
X-Ray Spex,
Whodini,
Brand Nubian,
Eric Copeland,
Guru Guru,
Q and Not U,
Arab on Radar,
Public Enemy,
Magazine,
Kurtis Blow,
Harry Pussy,
Animal Collective,
Depeche Mode,
Intrusion,
Piero Umiliani,
The Misunderstood,
Essential Logic,
Minutemen,
Faraquet,
Model 500,
Lucky Dragons,
Fad Gadget,
The Star Department,
Blake Baxter,
Hoover,
Josef K,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The American Breed,
The Gap Band,
Scan 7,
Donald Byrd,
The Stooges,
Ossler,
Little Man,
Nirvana,
Agitation Free,
The Divine Comedy,
Boz Scaggs,
Tom Boy,
Deepchord,
Al Stewart,
Lower 48,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ronnie Foster,
Echospace,
Masters at Work,
ABBA,
Cameo,
Patti Smith,
Yusef Lateef,
The Buckinghams,
Black Pus,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Zeros,
The Velvet Underground,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Angry Samoans,
Tomorrow,
The Toasters,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.