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 Lesotho and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 theremin 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 Soulsonic Force to the grime 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 Hoover. All the underground hits.
All The Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camouflage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slick Rick,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rekid,
Accadde A,
Little Man,
La Düsseldorf,
Alphaville,
Ossler,
Terry Callier,
The Kinks,
Alison Limerick,
B.T. Express,
The Grass Roots,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Babytalk,
The Standells,
New York Dolls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Vladislav Delay,
Average White Band,
Aloha Tigers,
Sight & Sound,
Ponytail,
The Gun Club,
Inner City,
The Motions,
Aaron Thompson,
Saccharine Trust,
The Doors,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Scott Walker,
Franke,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Juan Atkins,
Mandrill,
Cameo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Unrelated Segments,
Mo-Dettes,
Q and Not U,
Junior Murvin,
Swans,
Angry Samoans,
Laurel Aitken,
Q65,
Crispy Ambulance,
Essential Logic,
cv313,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
T.S.O.L.,
Dual Sessions,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Icehouse,
Television,
Surgeon,
Jacob Miller,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Eden Ahbez,
June of 44,
The Dead C,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.