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 Syria and from Columbus.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the organ 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 the Human League to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Sparks. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Royal Trux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Vogues,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Public Enemy,
The Human League,
Pagans,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Girls At Our Best!,
Main Source,
LL Cool J,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Carl Craig,
Marmalade,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Groovy Waters,
The Mojo Men,
Barry Ungar,
Aaron Thompson,
Rakim,
Lebanon Hanover,
Henry Cow,
The Electric Prunes,
Underground Resistance,
Tim Buckley,
Godley & Creme,
Buzzcocks,
Davy DMX,
The Alarm Clocks,
the Human League,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cal Tjader,
The Sonics,
Sam Rivers,
Jeff Lynne,
Sarah Menescal,
Robert Görl,
Glenn Branca,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Skatalites,
Tubeway Army,
Graham Central Station,
The Searchers,
Black Moon,
Derrick May,
The Kinks,
Slick Rick,
Rosa Yemen,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Delta 5,
David Axelrod,
Arthur Verocai,
Japan,
Stiv Bators,
Marshall Jefferson,
Kevin Saunderson,
the Sonics,
Ice-T,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Joensuu 1685,
Shoche,
Chris Corsano,
Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo.
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.