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 Portugal and from Columbus.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 snare 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 Sparks to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Moody Blues. All the underground hits.
All Ponytail tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scientists record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cure,
the Bar-Kays,
Bob Dylan,
The Red Krayola,
Susan Cadogan,
Chrome,
Kurtis Blow,
Girls At Our Best!,
Audionom,
Godley & Creme,
Inner City,
Piero Umiliani,
Agitation Free,
Peter and Kerry,
Warren Ellis,
Faraquet,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The J.B.'s,
Panda Bear,
Minor Threat,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Symarip,
the Soft Cell,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Guru Guru,
KRS-One,
Spoonie Gee,
The Five Americans,
Urselle,
Curtis Mayfield,
Deadbeat,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
EPMD,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eric B and Rakim,
Joy Division,
Section 25,
David Axelrod,
Grey Daturas,
The Velvet Underground,
Jacob Miller,
Black Bananas,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Matthew Halsall,
Yusef Lateef,
Janne Schatter,
Theoretical Girls,
This Heat,
The Searchers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lightning Bolt,
Roy Ayers,
Slave,
The Barracudas,
Brothers Johnson,
Anakelly,
Maleditus Sound,
Masters at Work,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rapeman,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.