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 Namibia and from Paris.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Bobbi Humphrey to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All Crash Course in Science tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Slave record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Tubeway Army,
The Cramps,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
MC5,
Aaron Thompson,
The Techniques,
Glenn Branca,
Wire,
48th St. Collective,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eric Dolphy,
Flipper,
Zapp,
One Last Wish,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lyres,
Simply Red,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
ABC,
JFA,
Bizarre Inc.,
Camberwell Now,
The Saints,
The New Christs,
The Velvet Underground,
The Knickerbockers,
The Young Rascals,
Piero Umiliani,
The Divine Comedy,
Nirvana,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Altered Images,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Dark Day,
Don Cherry,
Shoche,
Magma,
John Coltrane,
Pharoah Sanders,
Roy Ayers,
The Cowsills,
Sound Behaviour,
Barclay James Harvest,
Maurizio,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Faust,
The Moleskins,
The Vogues,
Sight & Sound,
Carl Craig,
The Barracudas,
Liliput,
Pagans,
Moby Grape,
Jeff Lynne,
Tears for Fears,
Make Up,
Kaleidoscope,
Eric B and Rakim, Eric B and Rakim, Eric B and Rakim, Eric B and Rakim.
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.