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 Portugal and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 oboe 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 Derrick Morgan to the disco 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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All Slick Rick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Christie 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heaven 17 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
The Misunderstood,
Lou Christie,
The Modern Lovers,
The Moody Blues,
Talk Talk,
Aswad,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kaleidoscope,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Susan Cadogan,
ABBA,
L. Decosne,
Fugazi,
the Slits,
Carl Craig,
Bobby Womack,
Letta Mbulu,
Boredoms,
OOIOO,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Dual Sessions,
Donny Hathaway,
Bobby Byrd,
Bauhaus,
Skriet,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Country Teasers,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Crispy Ambulance,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Associates,
Blossom Toes,
The Skatalites,
Rhythm & Sound,
Maurizio,
Rod Modell,
Nirvana,
Amazonics,
Thompson Twins,
Sight & Sound,
Popol Vuh,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rakim,
X-102,
Hoover,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Alton Ellis,
La Düsseldorf,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Barclay James Harvest,
Malaria!,
A Certain Ratio,
The Angels of Light,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Durutti Column,
Half Japanese,
Barrington Levy,
Faraquet,
Max Romeo,
The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies.
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.