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 Libya and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Sight & Sound to the disco 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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jeff Mills,
Eve St. Jones,
Minor Threat,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
kango's stein massive,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Jawbox,
Maleditus Sound,
Marmalade,
Thee Headcoats,
Pole,
Niagra,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
K-Klass,
Boz Scaggs,
Lalann,
Minutemen,
Idris Muhammad,
Deadbeat,
A Certain Ratio,
Stereo Dub,
Can,
Talk Talk,
The Electric Prunes,
CMW,
Dave Gahan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Visage,
Faust,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Divine Comedy,
Desert Stars,
Crime,
Groovy Waters,
Donald Byrd,
Banda Bassotti,
Depeche Mode,
Slick Rick,
Animal Collective,
The Modern Lovers,
Japan,
Babytalk,
Dawn Penn,
Henry Cow,
The Fire Engines,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sister Nancy,
Lyres,
Drexciya,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Au Pairs,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ronan,
Toni Rubio,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gong,
Archie Shepp,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice.
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.