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 Equatorial Guinea and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All Nik Kershaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
June of 44,
the Soft Cell,
The Fuzztones,
Joyce Sims,
Prince Buster,
Roxy Music,
Ken Boothe,
Byron Stingily,
Albert Ayler,
The Cure,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lightning Bolt,
The Blues Magoos,
EPMD,
Section 25,
Aloha Tigers,
This Heat,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Dave Clark Five,
Suicide,
The Golliwogs,
The Wake,
Alice Coltrane,
Simply Red,
Bronski Beat,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Andrew Hill,
Talk Talk,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Grandmaster Flash,
Outsiders,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Terrestrial Tones,
One Last Wish,
a-ha,
Gerry Rafferty,
Terry Callier,
The Associates,
Al Stewart,
Fat Boys,
The Tremeloes,
PIL,
ABC,
The Selecter,
Fad Gadget,
Funkadelic,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Laurel Aitken,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Saccharine Trust,
Nirvana,
The Real Kids,
Ralphi Rosario,
L. Decosne,
New York Dolls,
Dual Sessions,
Kas Product,
Juan Atkins,
Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus.
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.