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 Lithuania and from Lille.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro 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 Beasts of Bourbon to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All Brand Nubian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pop Group record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Ice-T,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gerry Rafferty,
Quando Quango,
Eurythmics,
Glambeats Corp.,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
One Last Wish,
Harry Pussy,
Grey Daturas,
Barclay James Harvest,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Kayak,
Heaven 17,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sonny Sharrock,
Joyce Sims,
Kas Product,
Mars,
Kevin Saunderson,
Mantronix,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Black Dice,
Pantytec,
In Retrospect,
The Grass Roots,
The Pretty Things,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Suicide,
Eric Dolphy,
DJ Sneak,
Absolute Body Control,
Q65,
Gong,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Funkadelic,
MDC,
Fugazi,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Minnie Riperton,
Reagan Youth,
The Flesh Eaters,
Pagans,
Main Source,
Babytalk,
Brand Nubian,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Grauzone,
Lower 48,
The Offenders,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Derrick May,
Deepchord,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lou Reed,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Jandek,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
John Lydon,
Ituana, Ituana, Ituana, Ituana.
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.