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 Italy and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 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 Marc Almond to the funk 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 Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yusef Lateef 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments 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?
Technova,
Ossler,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
David Bowie,
James White and The Blacks,
Livin' Joy,
Tomorrow,
Jeff Lynne,
Goldenarms,
The Five Americans,
Harpers Bizarre,
Peter and Kerry,
the Sonics,
The Happenings,
Piero Umiliani,
Patti Smith,
Terrestrial Tones,
Dennis Brown,
Subhumans,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Bluetip,
Y Pants,
Q and Not U,
Ken Boothe,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Niagra,
The Martian,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Todd Terry,
Toni Rubio,
Infiniti,
Mr. Review,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Vogues,
Faraquet,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Girls At Our Best!,
Skriet,
Lalo Schifrin,
Japan,
Quando Quango,
X-102,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Los Fastidios,
The Zeros,
Public Enemy,
Thompson Twins,
Pantytec,
Motorama,
Intrusion,
Man Eating Sloth,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Animal Collective,
Lou Christie,
Gong,
Tim Buckley,
The Standells,
The Pretty Things,
Eric Copeland,
Fugazi,
Panda Bear,
Urselle,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.