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 Turkey and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 sitar 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 Stereo Dub to the dance 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 Metal Thangz. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blossom Toes 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Chris & Cosey,
Lalo Schifrin,
Rites of Spring,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Dave Clark Five,
Anakelly,
Pussy Galore,
Aaron Thompson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Detroit Cobras,
Symarip,
Janne Schatter,
LL Cool J,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Moody Blues,
Q and Not U,
Eric Dolphy,
Idris Muhammad,
X-101,
The Cowsills,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Joensuu 1685,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Young Rascals,
Sun City Girls,
Alison Limerick,
Fluxion,
Kayak,
Severed Heads,
Groovy Waters,
Jerry's Kids,
The Zeros,
The Pretty Things,
Ronan,
The Modern Lovers,
Metal Thangz,
Sound Behaviour,
The American Breed,
The Count Five,
Dorothy Ashby,
kango's stein massive,
The Names,
Pere Ubu,
Trumans Water,
Glenn Branca,
The Invisible,
A Certain Ratio,
Interpol,
Skaos,
Technova,
Country Teasers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Quando Quango,
Ossler,
Kerri Chandler,
The Litter,
Cybotron,
The Blackbyrds,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.