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 Israel and from Copenhagen.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 The Trojans to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bronski Beat. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Whodini,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Stetsasonic,
Vladislav Delay,
The Five Americans,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Funky Four + One,
Josef K,
MC5,
David Bowie,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Hot Snakes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Flipper,
Idris Muhammad,
Angry Samoans,
Shuggie Otis,
The Vogues,
LL Cool J,
The Misunderstood,
U.S. Maple,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ponytail,
Japan,
The Blackbyrds,
Kerrie Biddell,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
World's Most,
Yusef Lateef,
Sarah Menescal,
New Age Steppers,
John Holt,
Minnie Riperton,
Johnny Osbourne,
Ohio Players,
Pet Shop Boys,
Toni Rubio,
Bootsy Collins,
Depeche Mode,
Circle Jerks,
FM Einheit,
Wolf Eyes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Neon Judgement,
Dead Boys,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Junior Murvin,
John Coltrane,
Soft Machine,
UT,
Groovy Waters,
Bizarre Inc.,
Todd Terry,
Con Funk Shun,
Eli Mardock,
Bill Wells,
Marcia Griffiths,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
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.