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 Djibouti and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Glasgow.
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 organ 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 Mandrill to the disco 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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Y Pants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Bowie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gang Green,
Anthony Braxton,
Hasil Adkins,
Loose Ends,
Clear Light,
Gastr Del Sol,
Fela Kuti,
Lee Hazlewood,
Grandmaster Flash,
Masters at Work,
Patti Smith,
Cheater Slicks,
Rotary Connection,
Prince Buster,
X-102,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
In Retrospect,
Stereo Dub,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The J.B.'s,
Porter Ricks,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Buzzcocks,
Ponytail,
The Standells,
Index,
Blancmange,
Lalo Schifrin,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Visage,
Kerri Chandler,
New Age Steppers,
La Düsseldorf,
Delta 5,
the Sonics,
Don Cherry,
8 Eyed Spy,
Michelle Simonal,
Electric Prunes,
The Pretty Things,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Motions,
Qualms,
Minny Pops,
Popol Vuh,
Aloha Tigers,
JFA,
Scott Walker,
Crispian St. Peters,
Godley & Creme,
Scrapy,
The New Christs,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Associates,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Trumans Water,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.