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 Moldova and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Misunderstood to the crunk 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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All The Black Dice tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pere Ubu,
Curtis Mayfield,
Barbara Tucker,
Nick Fraelich,
Agitation Free,
Average White Band,
June of 44,
Index,
Bill Wells,
Matthew Halsall,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
EPMD,
Surgeon,
Minnie Riperton,
MDC,
Kenny Larkin,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sarah Menescal,
Kas Product,
Wire,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Prince Buster,
The Cure,
A Certain Ratio,
Marine Girls,
Ohio Players,
Bluetip,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Piero Umiliani,
Gang of Four,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Walker Brothers,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Vogues,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Isaac Hayes,
The Electric Prunes,
Parry Music,
Scott Walker,
Crooked Eye,
Kaleidoscope,
H. Thieme,
Brand Nubian,
Lee Hazlewood,
Kevin Saunderson,
Joyce Sims,
The Raincoats,
The Skatalites,
Cameo,
Trumans Water,
Sexual Harrassment,
Kerri Chandler,
The Saints,
New York Dolls,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Nils Olav,
Make Up,
Judy Mowatt,
Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté.
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.