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 Palau and from Manila.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish to the funk 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 a-ha. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oneida record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bush Tetras record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Dorothy Ashby,
Negative Approach,
Massinfluence,
The Young Rascals,
Radiohead,
World's Most,
Tropical Tobacco,
Eric Copeland,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Morten Harket,
Grey Daturas,
Dennis Brown,
Outsiders,
Juan Atkins,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rekid,
The Moody Blues,
Accadde A,
The Searchers,
Marshall Jefferson,
Carl Craig,
Brick,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Terry Callier,
June Days,
Deakin,
Make Up,
Niagra,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Supertramp,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Modern Lovers,
Can,
Boogie Down Productions,
Unrelated Segments,
Ronan,
Delta 5,
The Wake,
MC5,
Buzzcocks,
Skriet,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Martian,
T.S.O.L.,
Wings,
D'Angelo,
DNA,
Brand Nubian,
Fluxion,
Ituana,
Wolf Eyes,
Donny Hathaway,
Radio Birdman,
Kevin Saunderson,
Joe Smooth,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound.
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.