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 St Lucia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Lou Reed 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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Monks. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blancmange record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Metal Thangz,
Funky Four + One,
The Mummies,
Bizarre Inc.,
Altered Images,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Derrick Morgan,
The Blackbyrds,
John Cale,
John Lydon,
Patti Smith,
Wasted Youth,
Lou Reed,
Sam Rivers,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Fela Kuti,
PIL,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Move,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
ABC,
Tres Demented,
Max Romeo,
Eric Dolphy,
Drexciya,
Warsaw,
The Fugs,
Grandmaster Flash,
U.S. Maple,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Minor Threat,
Sound Behaviour,
The Dirtbombs,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Minny Pops,
Vladislav Delay,
Johnny Clarke,
Harpers Bizarre,
Oneida,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Real Kids,
Marmalade,
Adolescents,
Rufus Thomas,
The Velvet Underground,
Arab on Radar,
Lucky Dragons,
The Fire Engines,
Archie Shepp,
Gichy Dan,
Scratch Acid,
Wire,
Joensuu 1685,
Curtis Mayfield,
Yellowson,
Ultravox,
Sandy B,
Letta Mbulu,
Steve Hackett,
Country Joe & The Fish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Excepter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.