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 Suriname and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 chamberlin 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 The Last Poets to the rap 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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All The Martian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Make Up 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Electric Prunes,
Byron Stingily,
Eric Copeland,
Danielle Patucci,
Section 25,
Fatback Band,
Dark Day,
CMW,
the Slits,
Sight & Sound,
Jeff Lynne,
The Busters,
The Cure,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Chris Corsano,
Kayak,
Shuggie Otis,
Connie Case,
Angry Samoans,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Donny Hathaway,
FM Einheit,
Tomorrow,
Jacques Brel,
The Searchers,
The Dave Clark Five,
Letta Mbulu,
Vladislav Delay,
Depeche Mode,
Mr. Review,
The Pretty Things,
Cheater Slicks,
Amon Düül,
Gerry Rafferty,
Dorothy Ashby,
Public Enemy,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Blake Baxter,
Theoretical Girls,
New Order,
The Gun Club,
Ohio Players,
DJ Style,
Second Layer,
June of 44,
Sonic Youth,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Saccharine Trust,
The Monks,
Q65,
Bauhaus,
Gastr Del Sol,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Glambeats Corp.,
Yusef Lateef,
Siglo XX,
Minny Pops,
Davy DMX,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sällskapet,
Guru Guru,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.