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 Peru and from Mumbai.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Alarm Clocks to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Con Funk Shun record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gladiators,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Pulsallama,
The Move,
Bizarre Inc.,
Roxette,
Schoolly D,
Sun City Girls,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Carl Craig,
The Fortunes,
Con Funk Shun,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Donny Hathaway,
These Immortal Souls,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kool Moe Dee,
Yusef Lateef,
Letta Mbulu,
The Black Dice,
Marcia Griffiths,
Wolf Eyes,
Essential Logic,
Hashim,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Supertramp,
UT,
Tomorrow,
Shoche,
Royal Trux,
The Sound,
10cc,
Peter and Kerry,
Average White Band,
Todd Terry,
Fifty Foot Hose,
One Last Wish,
World's Most,
Sällskapet,
The Pretty Things,
DNA,
Fear,
Nik Kershaw,
Mantronix,
Harmonia,
Freddie Wadling,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ralphi Rosario,
Stockholm Monsters,
Technova,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Simply Red,
The Associates,
Kerri Chandler,
Thompson Twins,
Erykah Badu,
Blancmange,
Country Teasers,
Ultimate Spinach,
PIL,
The Residents,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.