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 Switzerland and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 spring reverb 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 Zapp to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Young Marble Giants. All the underground hits.
All The Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erasure,
Max Romeo,
The Busters,
The Move,
Scan 7,
Don Cherry,
Motorama,
OOIOO,
Prince Buster,
a-ha,
The Saints,
June of 44,
Gil Scott Heron,
Skaos,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mantronix,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Index,
Barry Ungar,
Grandmaster Flash,
Urselle,
The Seeds,
Marmalade,
Main Source,
New Order,
Brand Nubian,
X-101,
Eric Copeland,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sällskapet,
The Standells,
Funky Four + One,
The Black Dice,
MDC,
The Smiths,
Henry Cow,
Cluster,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sonic Youth,
B.T. Express,
Brothers Johnson,
Arab on Radar,
The Slackers,
The Cure,
Harmonia,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Wire,
F. McDonald,
T. Rex,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Cecil Taylor,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The United States of America,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Kool Moe Dee,
Mad Mike,
E-Dancer,
Matthew Bourne,
Susan Cadogan,
Camouflage,
Ludus,
Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell.
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.