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 South Africa and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 808 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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Judy Mowatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yellowson 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minor Threat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wally Richardson,
Kenny Larkin,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Negative Approach,
Todd Rundgren,
Robert Hood,
Sonny Sharrock,
Second Layer,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kas Product,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Pantaleimon,
Sarah Menescal,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Talk Talk,
Yusef Lateef,
Saccharine Trust,
Black Bananas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Kevin Saunderson,
AZ,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Joe Finger,
Sugar Minott,
Quando Quango,
Byron Stingily,
Scan 7,
MDC,
David Axelrod,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Skarface,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Music Machine,
Stetsasonic,
The Gap Band,
Amazonics,
Jeff Lynne,
Reuben Wilson,
Intrusion,
Kerri Chandler,
Unwound,
Excepter,
Marcia Griffiths,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Mandrill,
The Angels of Light,
The Blues Magoos,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sight & Sound,
Boredoms,
Jacques Brel,
Rapeman,
These Immortal Souls,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
X-102,
Pantytec,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Ossler,
Flamin' Groovies,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex.
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.