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 Ivory Coast and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Isaac Hayes to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Donny Hathaway. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy Collins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Girls At Our Best!,
the Human League,
Rapeman,
The Beau Brummels,
Junior Murvin,
Ponytail,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ituana,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sparks,
Main Source,
New Order,
Flipper,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
David McCallum,
Josef K,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Brick,
Chrome,
Thee Headcoats,
Bobby Sherman,
U.S. Maple,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Soul II Soul,
Desert Stars,
Radiohead,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Bluetip,
The Selecter,
The Trojans,
Second Layer,
Niagra,
Derrick Morgan,
Groovy Waters,
The Modern Lovers,
Can,
Black Flag,
Eli Mardock,
Juan Atkins,
The Cowsills,
Terrestrial Tones,
Neil Young,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Moleskins,
MC5,
The Tremeloes,
the Normal,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Durutti Column,
Susan Cadogan,
Babytalk,
The Black Dice,
Arcadia,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Nils Olav,
Faraquet,
Stiv Bators,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.