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 Barbados and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 linndrum 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 The Residents to the funk 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 The Golliwogs. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Laurel Aitken record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
Rites of Spring,
The Gap Band,
Cluster,
Robert Görl,
Cymande,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Pretty Things,
The Names,
The Saints,
Rhythm & Sound,
Max Romeo,
Agent Orange,
Bad Manners,
Bobby Sherman,
Neil Young,
The Zeros,
Dark Day,
Sun Ra,
Pylon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Aaron Thompson,
Maleditus Sound,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Con Funk Shun,
The Martian,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Fortunes,
Marine Girls,
Groovy Waters,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Magma,
Monolake,
ABC,
Bang On A Can,
Todd Terry,
Brothers Johnson,
Derrick Morgan,
Soft Cell,
Morten Harket,
Dorothy Ashby,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bronski Beat,
Bobby Hutcherson,
David McCallum,
Ohio Players,
Leonard Cohen,
June Days,
Lyres,
Kevin Saunderson,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Yellowson,
Q and Not U,
Barrington Levy,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ultravox,
Ornette Coleman,
Nick Fraelich,
Deakin,
Spoonie Gee,
Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie.
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.