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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Lagos.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Stockholm.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Pop Group to the rap 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 Eyeless In Gaza. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Idris Muhammad,
Harmonia,
Excepter,
Blossom Toes,
Scrapy,
Cameo,
The J.B.'s,
Ronan,
Newcleus,
Minutemen,
Bobby Sherman,
Dave Gahan,
10cc,
Boz Scaggs,
Magma,
Audionom,
Glambeats Corp.,
Scientists,
Charles Mingus,
Con Funk Shun,
Carl Craig,
Franke,
Bob Dylan,
Girls At Our Best!,
Eli Mardock,
The Sound,
Ultra Naté,
The Martian,
Suicide,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Graham Central Station,
Mission of Burma,
Bizarre Inc.,
Yaz,
Stereo Dub,
Joey Negro,
Brick,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Parry Music,
Circle Jerks,
Sex Pistols,
The Standells,
Mark Hollis,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Theoretical Girls,
Eddi Front,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Monochrome Set,
The Golliwogs,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sam Rivers,
Second Layer,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Soulsonic Force,
Pantytec,
Wolf Eyes,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Fela Kuti,
Masters at Work,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Althea and Donna,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.