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 Angola and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and New York.
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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Morten Harket to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Albert Ayler. All the underground hits.
All Vainqueur tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donald Byrd record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
U.S. Maple,
Eddi Front,
Harry Pussy,
Q and Not U,
EPMD,
Arab on Radar,
Tommy Roe,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Matthew Halsall,
The Dead C,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Country Teasers,
Freddie Wadling,
Marine Girls,
Franke,
Marcia Griffiths,
Audionom,
Barry Ungar,
Funky Four + One,
Althea and Donna,
Section 25,
World's Most,
Buzzcocks,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lightning Bolt,
The Slackers,
Silicon Teens,
The Doors,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bill Wells,
48th St. Collective,
Zapp,
Rod Modell,
Hardrive,
The Fall,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Davy DMX,
Porter Ricks,
Reagan Youth,
Tim Buckley,
The Cramps,
The Wake,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Derrick Morgan,
Make Up,
Jesper Dahlback,
Negative Approach,
F. McDonald,
Camberwell Now,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Duran Duran,
Charles Mingus,
Blake Baxter,
ABC,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Pere Ubu,
Vainqueur,
Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band.
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.