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 Barbados and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Index to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Goldenarms. All the underground hits.
All Little Man tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brand Nubian 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gories record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
Godley & Creme,
Amazonics,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Gregory Isaacs,
Isaac Hayes,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lower 48,
Country Teasers,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Blues Magoos,
Piero Umiliani,
Skaos,
F. McDonald,
Bootsy Collins,
Second Layer,
The Trojans,
Inner City,
David McCallum,
Zero Boys,
Eric Copeland,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Deakin,
The Blackbyrds,
the Normal,
EPMD,
Aswad,
Minnie Riperton,
Scrapy,
Black Flag,
Joensuu 1685,
Agitation Free,
Dual Sessions,
Camouflage,
ABC,
Kerrie Biddell,
Fear,
Sound Behaviour,
Pagans,
Kurtis Blow,
Big Daddy Kane,
Chrome,
X-101,
Easy Going,
Tim Buckley,
Alison Limerick,
Boz Scaggs,
Bronski Beat,
Rites of Spring,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Glenn Branca,
Cheater Slicks,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
the Association,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Max Romeo,
Bad Manners,
Bizarre Inc.,
David Axelrod,
Lakeside,
U.S. Maple,
The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs.
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.