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 Liberia and from Delhi.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Lucky Dragons to the rap 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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Arthur Verocai tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every H. Thieme 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Faust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Gap Band,
The Gories,
Andrew Hill,
Derrick Morgan,
Maurizio,
The Moleskins,
Fela Kuti,
Fear,
Public Image Ltd.,
Todd Rundgren,
Sight & Sound,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jesper Dahlback,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Marc Almond,
The Names,
Porter Ricks,
Sparks,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ludus,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Carl Craig,
The Martian,
The Index,
Half Japanese,
Crooked Eye,
Tears for Fears,
Eric B and Rakim,
John Lydon,
Crispy Ambulance,
Soul II Soul,
The Searchers,
Joe Finger,
Barrington Levy,
Erykah Badu,
Al Stewart,
Barclay James Harvest,
Michelle Simonal,
Supertramp,
Matthew Bourne,
Stetsasonic,
Sister Nancy,
Gong,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Black Bananas,
Derrick May,
T.S.O.L.,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Organ,
Anthony Braxton,
Grandmaster Flash,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Radiohead,
Alice Coltrane,
Vainqueur,
Rakim,
Severed Heads,
Darondo,
Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians.
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.