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 Serbia and from Mexico City.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Boz Scaggs to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Cameo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jimmy McGriff record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skriet,
Ituana,
a-ha,
Soulsonic Force,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Audionom,
Hardrive,
Con Funk Shun,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Index,
Ultimate Spinach,
Dawn Penn,
Ultra Naté,
Organ,
Jeru the Damaja,
Byron Stingily,
Fear,
Fat Boys,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pere Ubu,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Barry Ungar,
LL Cool J,
Swans,
R.M.O.,
Lebanon Hanover,
Darondo,
Traffic Nightmare,
Mr. Review,
AZ,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bluetip,
Barbara Tucker,
Unwound,
Jeff Mills,
Maleditus Sound,
Zero Boys,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jerry Gold Smith,
ABC,
Electric Prunes,
Wolf Eyes,
Grauzone,
The Moody Blues,
Derrick May,
Davy DMX,
Camberwell Now,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Terry Callier,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Birthday Party,
Bill Wells,
Roger Hodgson,
Essential Logic,
Sight & Sound,
Pylon,
the Human League,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
E-Dancer,
Girls At Our Best!,
June of 44,
Oneida,
Rekid,
The Tremeloes,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.