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 Gambia and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Stockholm.
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 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Red Krayola. All the underground hits.
All Ultramagnetic MC's tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Knickerbockers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Todd Terry,
Vladislav Delay,
Throbbing Gristle,
Bad Manners,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Cheater Slicks,
Black Bananas,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Skaos,
Flash Fearless,
Toni Rubio,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rufus Thomas,
T. Rex,
China Crisis,
Black Sheep,
Brass Construction,
June of 44,
Skarface,
Jimmy McGriff,
Eric Copeland,
Parry Music,
Faraquet,
Spandau Ballet,
The Smoke,
Sparks,
Blake Baxter,
Delon & Dalcan,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Duran Duran,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Brothers Johnson,
Todd Rundgren,
DJ Sneak,
Lalo Schifrin,
Max Romeo,
Ludus,
The Searchers,
Model 500,
the Association,
The Young Rascals,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Little Man,
The Gap Band,
Glenn Branca,
Neu!,
The Doors,
Spoonie Gee,
Donald Byrd,
Bang On A Can,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Red Krayola,
a-ha,
Rekid,
LL Cool J,
Dennis Brown,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.