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 Bulgaria and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Kurtis Blow to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ultra Naté. All the underground hits.
All The Busters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Traffic Nightmare 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang Starr record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Cal Tjader,
Pharoah Sanders,
Brass Construction,
Big Daddy Kane,
Dave Gahan,
Heaven 17,
The Invisible,
The Moleskins,
Donny Hathaway,
Brick,
Junior Murvin,
The Happenings,
Stereo Dub,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Oblivians,
Joey Negro,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Adolescents,
Rufus Thomas,
In Retrospect,
Absolute Body Control,
Rosa Yemen,
Qualms,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Johnny Clarke,
Massinfluence,
Rapeman,
Cecil Taylor,
The Names,
Albert Ayler,
FM Einheit,
10cc,
Sun Ra,
The Velvet Underground,
Altered Images,
the Soft Cell,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Scratch Acid,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Motions,
Sandy B,
Slave,
The Busters,
The Neon Judgement,
Parry Music,
Arthur Verocai,
Drive Like Jehu,
Banda Bassotti,
E-Dancer,
The Sonics,
Joensuu 1685,
Sight & Sound,
The Last Poets,
Fad Gadget,
Television,
Young Marble Giants,
The Detroit Cobras,
Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses.
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.