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 Cyprus and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 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 Arab on Radar to the jazz 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 The Royal Family And The Poor. All the underground hits.
All Judy Mowatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June Days record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Hill,
AZ,
The Happenings,
The Misunderstood,
Sex Pistols,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Reagan Youth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Popol Vuh,
Neil Young,
Reuben Wilson,
Public Enemy,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Drive Like Jehu,
Wasted Youth,
Kas Product,
Idris Muhammad,
Peter and Kerry,
Todd Terry,
Rufus Thomas,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Barry Ungar,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Black Pus,
The Invisible,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Country Teasers,
Ultimate Spinach,
Wolf Eyes,
Darondo,
The Doors,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sonic Youth,
China Crisis,
The Mummies,
The Litter,
Babytalk,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Unrelated Segments,
John Coltrane,
David Axelrod,
Minnie Riperton,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Pop Group,
Rhythm & Sound,
New Order,
The Gories,
Dead Boys,
Gichy Dan,
Yaz,
Radiopuhelimet,
Grandmaster Flash,
Matthew Bourne,
Quadrant,
Sun Ra,
The Gap Band,
MC5,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Divine Comedy,
The Kinks,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.