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 Thailand and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 808 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 Panda Bear to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Bluetip. All the underground hits.
All Liliput tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cymande record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drexciya record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mantronix,
R.M.O.,
Make Up,
Yaz,
Nik Kershaw,
Frankie Knuckles,
Section 25,
Pantaleimon,
Boredoms,
kango's stein massive,
The Misunderstood,
The Doobie Brothers,
Public Enemy,
The Black Dice,
Todd Rundgren,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Skriet,
Outsiders,
Metal Thangz,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
John Foxx,
World's Most,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Funkadelic,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Yusef Lateef,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Chrome,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Hot Snakes,
Kayak,
Faraquet,
Jandek,
Agent Orange,
AZ,
China Crisis,
Icehouse,
Rites of Spring,
Warren Ellis,
Rekid,
Marcia Griffiths,
Infiniti,
Jimmy McGriff,
Intrusion,
Sonny Sharrock,
Swell Maps,
Sound Behaviour,
Wings,
Parry Music,
Deakin,
Godley & Creme,
Juan Atkins,
Scion,
Hasil Adkins,
Sun Ra,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.