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 Yemen and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 snare 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 Ten City to the punk 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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
MDC,
DJ Style,
Spandau Ballet,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Shoche,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Pere Ubu,
Goldenarms,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Roxette,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Todd Rundgren,
Soft Machine,
New Order,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Minutemen,
Ohio Players,
T.S.O.L.,
Grauzone,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pierre Henry,
The Offenders,
Von Mondo,
Rotary Connection,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Desert Stars,
the Sonics,
Cheater Slicks,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Flash Fearless,
The Smiths,
Roger Hodgson,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Audionom,
Joy Division,
The Birthday Party,
Ronnie Foster,
Connie Case,
Index,
The Litter,
The Residents,
Mary Jane Girls,
The United States of America,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Boz Scaggs,
Can,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Invisible,
The Gap Band,
Chrome,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gregory Isaacs,
Iggy Pop,
Television,
Reuben Wilson,
Funky Four + One,
Fatback Band,
Country Teasers,
Bronski Beat,
Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül.
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.