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 Denmark 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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the organ 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 Country Teasers to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu. All the underground hits.
All Graham Central Station tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oppenheimer Analysis 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Danielle Patucci record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Neil Young,
Ituana,
Nik Kershaw,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Wally Richardson,
the Normal,
Black Bananas,
Patti Smith,
Eli Mardock,
Juan Atkins,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Intrusion,
Banda Bassotti,
Thee Headcoats,
Black Sheep,
Eric Dolphy,
Oblivians,
Flash Fearless,
Marshall Jefferson,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Charles Mingus,
Kerri Chandler,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Robert Hood,
The Smiths,
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Animal Collective,
The Young Rascals,
New Order,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Dave Clark Five,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Buzzcocks,
Schoolly D,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Young Marble Giants,
The Skatalites,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Youth Brigade,
Robert Görl,
Todd Terry,
Joe Smooth,
Graham Central Station,
Gabor Szabo,
Altered Images,
The Walker Brothers,
The Alarm Clocks,
Kaleidoscope,
Silicon Teens,
Rakim,
Bush Tetras,
David Bowie,
Spandau Ballet,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Residents,
Davy DMX,
Josef K,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Invisible,
The Monks, The Monks, The Monks, The Monks.
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.