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 Estonia and from Stockholm.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Cybotron 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 Blake Baxter. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ken Boothe 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rapeman,
Agitation Free,
The Divine Comedy,
Jacob Miller,
Procol Harum,
Todd Terry,
Whodini,
Junior Murvin,
JFA,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Flamin' Groovies,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Beau Brummels,
Drive Like Jehu,
Fat Boys,
Goldenarms,
The Blues Magoos,
Ralphi Rosario,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Newcleus,
Dawn Penn,
John Coltrane,
Gastr Del Sol,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rosa Yemen,
Tommy Roe,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Doors,
Camberwell Now,
The Angels of Light,
Glambeats Corp.,
Joy Division,
The Barracudas,
DJ Style,
The Wake,
Barclay James Harvest,
Pole,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Jesper Dahlback,
Chrome,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Symarip,
Dead Boys,
Ornette Coleman,
Al Stewart,
Fluxion,
Lou Reed,
Popol Vuh,
Main Source,
Barrington Levy,
Skaos,
Bootsy Collins,
Kas Product,
Kurtis Blow,
Lucky Dragons,
Shoche,
Patti Smith,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Danielle Patucci,
Nirvana,
Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters.
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.