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 Cambodia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the 808 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 Slits to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All London Community Gospel Choir tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonny Sharrock,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Danielle Patucci,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Searchers,
The Skatalites,
Peter & Gordon,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Fire Engines,
Newcleus,
New York Dolls,
Pussy Galore,
Arthur Verocai,
Joy Division,
Barbara Tucker,
The Toasters,
Young Marble Giants,
Scan 7,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bob Dylan,
Sarah Menescal,
Warren Ellis,
Joey Negro,
Tropical Tobacco,
Crooked Eye,
Aloha Tigers,
Slick Rick,
Joe Finger,
The Electric Prunes,
the Swans,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Chrome,
Reagan Youth,
E-Dancer,
Los Fastidios,
Jeff Lynne,
Yusef Lateef,
Freddie Wadling,
Vladislav Delay,
The Move,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Kurtis Blow,
The Blues Magoos,
LL Cool J,
Amazonics,
DNA,
The Saints,
Babytalk,
Donny Hathaway,
Drexciya,
The Barracudas,
Tres Demented,
Groovy Waters,
Gil Scott Heron,
Deadbeat,
Marshall Jefferson,
Metal Thangz,
The Pretty Things,
Derrick May,
Parry Music,
Skarface,
Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich, Nick Fraelich.
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.