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 Costa Rica and from Mexico City.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 arpeggiator 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 Bootsy Collins 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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Derrick Morgan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Supertramp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Parry Music,
In Retrospect,
Saccharine Trust,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Brass Construction,
Accadde A,
Erykah Badu,
Tom Boy,
The Blues Magoos,
Davy DMX,
Duran Duran,
Lou Reed,
Marshall Jefferson,
Public Image Ltd.,
Arab on Radar,
Index,
Shoche,
Khruangbin,
Glambeats Corp.,
Byron Stingily,
Soul II Soul,
Lyres,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Unrelated Segments,
Toni Rubio,
Infiniti,
Anthony Braxton,
Blossom Toes,
Morten Harket,
The Red Krayola,
A Certain Ratio,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Brothers Johnson,
Mad Mike,
Rakim,
Electric Prunes,
Technova,
Fat Boys,
Radiohead,
Minnie Riperton,
LL Cool J,
Iggy Pop,
Model 500,
Lindisfarne,
Cal Tjader,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Eddi Front,
Harpers Bizarre,
K-Klass,
Nico,
Donny Hathaway,
The Knickerbockers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
John Cale,
Scrapy,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
D'Angelo,
Nick Fraelich,
Laurel Aitken,
The Human League, The Human League, The Human League, The Human League.
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.