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 Burundi and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Aloha Tigers to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Kurtis Blow. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharoah Sanders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blake Baxter,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Dave Clark Five,
Matthew Halsall,
Quantec,
Negative Approach,
Connie Case,
Crispy Ambulance,
These Immortal Souls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Faraquet,
The Stooges,
Lou Reed,
The New Christs,
Steve Hackett,
The Red Krayola,
Bobby Sherman,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Harmonia,
Zero Boys,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The United States of America,
The Sound,
Minny Pops,
Susan Cadogan,
Eurythmics,
Max Romeo,
Metal Thangz,
Fat Boys,
Crash Course in Science,
Alphaville,
The Vogues,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Oneida,
Roy Ayers,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Leonard Cohen,
Gerry Rafferty,
FM Einheit,
Minor Threat,
Index,
Little Man,
Bill Near,
Spoonie Gee,
Drexciya,
Archie Shepp,
Hashim,
Inner City,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Crispian St. Peters,
The American Breed,
The Names,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lebanon Hanover,
Barry Ungar,
Kurtis Blow,
Stereo Dub,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Fugazi,
48th St. Collective,
Don Cherry,
Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells.
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.