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 Nigeria and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Motorama to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All John Foxx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every LL Cool J record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Neon Judgement,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Hasil Adkins,
David McCallum,
Funkadelic,
Japan,
John Cale,
Ronan,
Robert Görl,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pierre Henry,
Fela Kuti,
Godley & Creme,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Shadows of Knight,
Lower 48,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Crispian St. Peters,
Curtis Mayfield,
Royal Trux,
Marcia Griffiths,
Infiniti,
the Swans,
The Wake,
Con Funk Shun,
Matthew Halsall,
Aloha Tigers,
Fear,
Deepchord,
Severed Heads,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Rites of Spring,
Index,
Procol Harum,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Five Americans,
Arab on Radar,
Goldenarms,
Throbbing Gristle,
UT,
Saccharine Trust,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
This Heat,
Half Japanese,
Monolake,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ten City,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Dead Boys,
The Move,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Spoonie Gee,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Nirvana,
Alison Limerick,
Rosa Yemen,
A Certain Ratio,
Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway.
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.