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 Tajikistan and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Sao Paulo.
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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the snare 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 Thee Headcoats to the disco 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 Sam Rivers. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Silicon Teens,
Kenny Larkin,
Minutemen,
Minor Threat,
Desert Stars,
Ludus,
Television Personalities,
Vainqueur,
Frankie Knuckles,
Alton Ellis,
Thee Headcoats,
Rod Modell,
Bill Wells,
the Bar-Kays,
KRS-One,
The Slits,
Niagra,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Red Krayola,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
La Düsseldorf,
The Index,
Porter Ricks,
Bronski Beat,
China Crisis,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Misunderstood,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bluetip,
Bang On A Can,
Oneida,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Remains,
Lou Christie,
Crash Course in Science,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Erasure,
Deakin,
E-Dancer,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Royal Trux,
Parry Music,
Isaac Hayes,
Hardrive,
Dave Gahan,
Alphaville,
Symarip,
Rufus Thomas,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Boz Scaggs,
Boredoms,
Essential Logic,
The Barracudas,
Malaria!,
Archie Shepp,
One Last Wish,
Arthur Verocai,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Funky Four + One,
Rotary Connection,
Brothers Johnson,
Roy Ayers,
Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside.
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.