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 Azerbaijan and from New York.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Nas to the crunk 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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All Eve St. Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vladislav Delay 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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?
Trumans Water,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Glambeats Corp.,
Rotary Connection,
The Cowsills,
Eden Ahbez,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kool Moe Dee,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Star Department,
Jacob Miller,
Swell Maps,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Alarm Clocks,
D'Angelo,
kango's stein massive,
Symarip,
Terrestrial Tones,
Simply Red,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
AZ,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Pylon,
Dead Boys,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Kas Product,
John Cale,
Aloha Tigers,
The Buckinghams,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Morten Harket,
The Blues Magoos,
Outsiders,
Lalo Schifrin,
Kaleidoscope,
Davy DMX,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Inner City,
The Cramps,
Minor Threat,
Brand Nubian,
Robert Hood,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Techniques,
The Raincoats,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Mars,
Leonard Cohen,
The Misunderstood,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Porter Ricks,
Soul II Soul,
Con Funk Shun,
Bronski Beat,
Grandmaster Flash,
Man Eating Sloth,
Black Pus,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Names, The Names, The Names, The Names.
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.