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 Madagascar 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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Holger Czukay 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 Fort Wilson Riot to the jazz 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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Pagans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Real Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Fraelich,
Blake Baxter,
R.M.O.,
Stetsasonic,
The Blackbyrds,
the Fania All-Stars,
Skarface,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Yazoo,
Brass Construction,
Ornette Coleman,
Anakelly,
The Monks,
Fugazi,
Bizarre Inc.,
Slave,
Dual Sessions,
The Searchers,
Loose Ends,
Rekid,
Colin Newman,
a-ha,
The Moody Blues,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
DNA,
Inner City,
Marvin Gaye,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Deakin,
Godley & Creme,
La Düsseldorf,
The Techniques,
Eddi Front,
the Slits,
Skriet,
Reagan Youth,
the Sonics,
Camouflage,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
UT,
Scratch Acid,
the Normal,
Althea and Donna,
Heaven 17,
The Grass Roots,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sandy B,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gichy Dan,
Bobby Womack,
Dawn Penn,
Roxette,
Smog,
Ohio Players,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Crooked Eye,
Surgeon,
D'Angelo,
Los Fastidios,
Massinfluence,
The Red Krayola,
10cc,
Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat.
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.