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 Guatemala and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Amazonics to the techno 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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Metal Thangz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kaleidoscope record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Ten City,
The Raincoats,
Country Teasers,
Altered Images,
Fugazi,
Frankie Knuckles,
10cc,
Rotary Connection,
Crime,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Whodini,
K-Klass,
The Barracudas,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Walker Brothers,
Marine Girls,
Kas Product,
Nirvana,
kango's stein massive,
The New Christs,
Audionom,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Buzzcocks,
Peter & Gordon,
Oneida,
Erasure,
Delon & Dalcan,
Arab on Radar,
R.M.O.,
Mantronix,
David Axelrod,
Sun Ra,
Fela Kuti,
The Neon Judgement,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Newcleus,
Rod Modell,
DJ Style,
Ken Boothe,
Adolescents,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
the Swans,
James White and The Blacks,
X-101,
DNA,
Blancmange,
Byron Stingily,
Davy DMX,
The Fall,
Faust,
Joyce Sims,
Maleditus Sound,
Cheater Slicks,
Freddie Wadling,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
T.S.O.L.,
The Monochrome Set,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.