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 Finland and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 chamberlin 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Black Bananas. All the underground hits.
All Terry Callier tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantaleimon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar 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?
Junior Murvin,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sam Rivers,
Barbara Tucker,
Panda Bear,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Happenings,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Zeros,
The Fall,
Barry Ungar,
Rotary Connection,
Matthew Halsall,
Soft Cell,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lightning Bolt,
Robert Görl,
Mantronix,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Sound,
Radio Birdman,
Sonic Youth,
Nas,
Fela Kuti,
Shoche,
Ponytail,
Erykah Badu,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Nation of Ulysses,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Crooked Eye,
Quadrant,
The Moleskins,
Magma,
The Mummies,
Icehouse,
the Sonics,
Amon Düül II,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ornette Coleman,
Adolescents,
Japan,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Grass Roots,
Talk Talk,
Theoretical Girls,
Oneida,
Morten Harket,
Sugar Minott,
The Leaves,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Evens,
Colin Newman,
Porter Ricks,
Parry Music,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Warsaw,
Newcleus,
Ronnie Foster,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.