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 Equatorial Guinea and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 harpsichord 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 The Sisters of Mercy to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Inner City. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Con Funk Shun 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 synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-102 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Zero Boys,
World's Most,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sandy B,
Kerri Chandler,
Bluetip,
Bootsy Collins,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Loose Ends,
Kerrie Biddell,
L. Decosne,
Stockholm Monsters,
Bush Tetras,
Arcadia,
UT,
Nick Fraelich,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Charles Mingus,
Avey Tare,
Godley & Creme,
Bobby Sherman,
Boredoms,
Derrick Morgan,
Brick,
Maurizio,
Sister Nancy,
Chris Corsano,
Audionom,
Make Up,
Popol Vuh,
Young Marble Giants,
Ralphi Rosario,
PIL,
The Wake,
Von Mondo,
Minnie Riperton,
Tropical Tobacco,
Toni Rubio,
Camberwell Now,
Bobby Womack,
Scientists,
Radio Birdman,
Spandau Ballet,
Ponytail,
Anakelly,
Motorama,
Gastr Del Sol,
Matthew Bourne,
Isaac Hayes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Move,
In Retrospect,
Neil Young,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
K-Klass,
Q and Not U,
Theoretical Girls,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Bill Wells,
Bizarre Inc.,
Fad Gadget,
Henry Cow, Henry Cow, Henry Cow, Henry Cow.
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.