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 Nigeria and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 güiro 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 Carl Craig to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Alice Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Erykah Badu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Infiniti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Das Ding record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeru the Damaja,
Idris Muhammad,
Mo-Dettes,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Gap Band,
The Five Americans,
Bootsy Collins,
The Star Department,
Mantronix,
Section 25,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Brass Construction,
Liliput,
Donny Hathaway,
Marvin Gaye,
Hashim,
Moss Icon,
Visage,
Maleditus Sound,
Lou Reed,
Iggy Pop,
Ten City,
Groovy Waters,
Aaron Thompson,
Tears for Fears,
the Germs,
The Remains,
X-102,
The Evens,
Ludus,
Tropical Tobacco,
DJ Sneak,
Cecil Taylor,
Fatback Band,
Michelle Simonal,
Cal Tjader,
Quantec,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Black Sheep,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Cowsills,
Marmalade,
Todd Terry,
Amon Düül,
This Heat,
Alton Ellis,
Danielle Patucci,
Royal Trux,
Tom Boy,
David Axelrod,
Slick Rick,
The Busters,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Trojans,
Sun Ra,
Hoover,
Panda Bear,
The Kinks,
Mars,
New Age Steppers,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.