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 Antigua and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Houston.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Liliput to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronnie Foster 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Holt,
Neil Young,
The Leaves,
The Standells,
Niagra,
Cecil Taylor,
Hoover,
Todd Terry,
AZ,
Lou Christie,
The Cowsills,
World's Most,
Cybotron,
Stetsasonic,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Rhythm & Sound,
a-ha,
Kurtis Blow,
Hot Snakes,
Johnny Osbourne,
Sun City Girls,
The Cramps,
Crooked Eye,
Banda Bassotti,
FM Einheit,
Maurizio,
Popol Vuh,
The Mummies,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Theoretical Girls,
Eli Mardock,
Wings,
June Days,
Guru Guru,
The Toasters,
The Martian,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pere Ubu,
Negative Approach,
Monks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Echospace,
Eddi Front,
Second Layer,
Soulsonic Force,
Skriet,
Ultra Naté,
Skaos,
Rapeman,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Soft Machine,
Gregory Isaacs,
ABBA,
The Doors,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Trojans,
R.M.O.,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Techniques,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ronan,
The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Men They Couldn't Hang.
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.