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 Slovenia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 808 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 Y Pants to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. All the underground hits.
All Althea and Donna tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swell Maps record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Outsiders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Evens,
Sandy B,
L. Decosne,
Yazoo,
Juan Atkins,
Kevin Saunderson,
Black Moon,
Terry Callier,
Masters at Work,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
David McCallum,
Man Eating Sloth,
Godley & Creme,
Kas Product,
Kerrie Biddell,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Josef K,
Susan Cadogan,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Blancmange,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Index,
Rosa Yemen,
The Doobie Brothers,
Young Marble Giants,
Yaz,
Ultimate Spinach,
Deadbeat,
Average White Band,
Rotary Connection,
AZ,
Procol Harum,
Sällskapet,
Pharoah Sanders,
Radiohead,
Cluster,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Franke,
Fluxion,
The American Breed,
Make Up,
DJ Style,
Scan 7,
Can,
Camouflage,
The Fugs,
Oneida,
Robert Görl,
Fad Gadget,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jeff Lynne,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sun Ra,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
JFA,
Quando Quango,
The Cure,
Parry Music,
Tres Demented,
Anthony Braxton,
Derrick May,
Colin Newman,
Intrusion, Intrusion, Intrusion, Intrusion.
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.