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 Benin and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sarah Menescal 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All the underground hits.
All The Mojo Men tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dirtbombs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Techniques,
Boz Scaggs,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gabor Szabo,
Fugazi,
Dual Sessions,
The Martian,
Funkadelic,
Public Enemy,
Dead Boys,
Lyres,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Schoolly D,
Laurel Aitken,
Letta Mbulu,
The Velvet Underground,
Kenny Larkin,
Rotary Connection,
Cymande,
Scott Walker,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
New York Dolls,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Slave,
Henry Cow,
The Angels of Light,
Vainqueur,
a-ha,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bronski Beat,
Altered Images,
Slick Rick,
Terry Callier,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Litter,
Eric Copeland,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Bobby Womack,
CMW,
Robert Hood,
Neil Young,
Kevin Saunderson,
OOIOO,
Kayak,
the Human League,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Rapeman,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Matthew Halsall,
New Order,
Albert Ayler,
Jeff Mills,
E-Dancer,
Peter and Kerry,
Leonard Cohen,
Franke,
Kool Moe Dee,
Nik Kershaw,
Minny Pops,
Marc Almond,
Royal Trux,
T. Rex, T. Rex, T. Rex, T. Rex.
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.