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 Denmark and from Bremen.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 David Bowie 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 Tremeloes to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Blake Baxter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deadbeat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Massinfluence,
Heaven 17,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jeff Lynne,
David Bowie,
Alice Coltrane,
John Foxx,
The Monochrome Set,
New Order,
Freddie Wadling,
The Residents,
Black Pus,
Barclay James Harvest,
Rapeman,
Tomorrow,
Mark Hollis,
Fear,
48th St. Collective,
Matthew Bourne,
DJ Sneak,
Neil Young,
The Doobie Brothers,
Masters at Work,
Pussy Galore,
Public Enemy,
Babytalk,
The Human League,
Sonic Youth,
Eden Ahbez,
The Busters,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bootsy Collins,
The New Christs,
Au Pairs,
the Normal,
Average White Band,
Scott Walker,
Aural Exciters,
Juan Atkins,
T. Rex,
Shoche,
Scion,
The Raincoats,
Vainqueur,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
D'Angelo,
Sarah Menescal,
Pantaleimon,
Funky Four + One,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Joe Finger,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Jimmy McGriff,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Hasil Adkins,
Hardrive,
Half Japanese,
Sound Behaviour,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.