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 Philippines 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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 clarinet 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 Tears for Fears to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Juan Atkins. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boz Scaggs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Silicon Teens,
Camberwell Now,
The Fugs,
The Walker Brothers,
Derrick May,
The Names,
Eurythmics,
Schoolly D,
The Standells,
The Gun Club,
The United States of America,
Nas,
In Retrospect,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Pierre Henry,
Mark Hollis,
The Cramps,
Arthur Verocai,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Fuzztones,
Bronski Beat,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lou Christie,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Michelle Simonal,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Erasure,
The Durutti Column,
Jimmy McGriff,
Circle Jerks,
The Cowsills,
The Saints,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Dennis Brown,
Darondo,
the Swans,
The Gladiators,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Smiths,
The Music Machine,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Crash Course in Science,
Make Up,
JFA,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Gregory Isaacs,
Joe Smooth,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Anakelly,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Slackers,
Pantytec,
Lightning Bolt,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Susan Cadogan,
John Holt,
Pet Shop Boys,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Desert Stars,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Blancmange, Blancmange, Blancmange, Blancmange.
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.