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 Sri Lanka and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
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 Unwound to the jazz 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 Man Eating Sloth. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eyeless In Gaza record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Red Krayola,
PIL,
The Grass Roots,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Flesh Eaters,
Peter & Gordon,
Saccharine Trust,
MDC,
Heaven 17,
Ossler,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Tres Demented,
Eric Copeland,
Alton Ellis,
Dave Gahan,
Hot Snakes,
The New Christs,
Barrington Levy,
Moss Icon,
The Remains,
EPMD,
Mary Jane Girls,
Country Teasers,
Marcia Griffiths,
Mantronix,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Roy Ayers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Judy Mowatt,
Letta Mbulu,
Anthony Braxton,
Barclay James Harvest,
Jeff Mills,
Mandrill,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Surgeon,
Alphaville,
The Sonics,
Throbbing Gristle,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Accadde A,
Radiopuhelimet,
the Human League,
Lalann,
Kas Product,
The Dirtbombs,
Terrestrial Tones,
Young Marble Giants,
Bad Manners,
Erasure,
Babytalk,
Howard Jones,
Tubeway Army,
The Velvet Underground,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Techniques,
David Axelrod,
Thee Headcoats,
The Offenders,
The Moody Blues,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.