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 Malta and from Johannesburg.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Joensuu 1685 to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Bobby Byrd. All the underground hits.
All Lee Hazlewood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New York Dolls 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 an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a K-Klass record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Happenings,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Dark Day,
Sixth Finger,
Reuben Wilson,
Janne Schatter,
The Flesh Eaters,
E-Dancer,
Glenn Branca,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Techniques,
Boredoms,
Vainqueur,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Jimmy McGriff,
Shoche,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bobby Womack,
Ken Boothe,
Ornette Coleman,
The American Breed,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dennis Brown,
Crash Course in Science,
David Bowie,
Bobby Byrd,
World's Most,
Cybotron,
the Soft Cell,
Steve Hackett,
Soft Cell,
Khruangbin,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Anakelly,
Jeff Mills,
The Five Americans,
Visage,
Scrapy,
The Smoke,
48th St. Collective,
Excepter,
The Dave Clark Five,
Grey Daturas,
Lower 48,
Marvin Gaye,
Brothers Johnson,
The Fire Engines,
Oneida,
Lindisfarne,
Sugar Minott,
The Dead C,
Pet Shop Boys,
Pulsallama,
The Human League,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Scratch Acid,
The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible.
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.