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 Syria and from Shanghai.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 synthesizer 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 The Seeds to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Iggy Pop. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre 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 rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang Green record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cosmic Jokers,
Oblivians,
Unrelated Segments,
Animal Collective,
The Sonics,
The Doors,
Yusef Lateef,
The Monochrome Set,
Shuggie Otis,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ronan,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Dave Gahan,
Bobby Womack,
The Barracudas,
Kaleidoscope,
Index,
Bizarre Inc.,
Reagan Youth,
The Red Krayola,
Slick Rick,
The Modern Lovers,
Bob Dylan,
the Fania All-Stars,
Young Marble Giants,
The Flesh Eaters,
Pere Ubu,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ralphi Rosario,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Stiv Bators,
Piero Umiliani,
Godley & Creme,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Outsiders,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sugar Minott,
Quando Quango,
AZ,
Pierre Henry,
Neil Young,
Whodini,
Gerry Rafferty,
Tom Boy,
DJ Style,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
DNA,
Scott Walker,
Joy Division,
Harry Pussy,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Joey Negro,
FM Einheit,
Interpol,
The Velvet Underground,
Mad Mike,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Soul II Soul,
Yazoo,
The Buckinghams,
Scion,
Vainqueur,
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.