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 Qatar and from Mexico City.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 güiro 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 Talk Talk to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Grass Roots. All the underground hits.
All The Sisters of Mercy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Real Kids,
Whodini,
Boredoms,
The Smoke,
Byron Stingily,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cybotron,
Kaleidoscope,
Bobby Byrd,
Ossler,
Masters at Work,
Gang Starr,
The Remains,
Unrelated Segments,
Cameo,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Fortunes,
Ultravox,
Supertramp,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jawbox,
Alice Coltrane,
Matthew Halsall,
Fat Boys,
Lee Hazlewood,
Thee Headcoats,
EPMD,
Skriet,
Lou Reed,
The Busters,
Patti Smith,
Althea and Donna,
Chrome,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Boogie Down Productions,
Make Up,
Gil Scott Heron,
Scott Walker,
kango's stein massive,
Jeff Mills,
Pole,
Scan 7,
David McCallum,
Audionom,
Roger Hodgson,
Mantronix,
Silicon Teens,
PIL,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Accadde A,
Minor Threat,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
10cc,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Khruangbin,
Camberwell Now,
The Standells,
Black Moon,
Outsiders,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.