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 El Salvador and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 snare 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 Connie Case to the jazz 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 Invisible. All the underground hits.
All Ten City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tommy Roe 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Alison Limerick,
Clear Light,
The Residents,
The Cowsills,
Neu!,
Model 500,
David Axelrod,
DJ Style,
Technova,
Supertramp,
Zero Boys,
Bad Manners,
Sällskapet,
Television,
Fluxion,
Anthony Braxton,
Duran Duran,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
MC5,
The Real Kids,
Hasil Adkins,
Darondo,
La Düsseldorf,
Delon & Dalcan,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Tropical Tobacco,
Glenn Branca,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Junior Murvin,
Circle Jerks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Little Man,
Idris Muhammad,
Shuggie Otis,
The Knickerbockers,
The Velvet Underground,
Fatback Band,
Frankie Knuckles,
Carl Craig,
Q and Not U,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Amon Düül II,
Sparks,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Names,
Main Source,
Erykah Badu,
Peter and Kerry,
DJ Sneak,
The Offenders,
Dawn Penn,
Joensuu 1685,
Sonny Sharrock,
Wasted Youth,
Lyres,
Terrestrial Tones,
Erasure,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Scrapy,
Lalann,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.