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 Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 güiro 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 Vainqueur to the grunge 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 Young Rascals. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Clarke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Babytalk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Ultra Naté,
The Remains,
Thee Headcoats,
This Heat,
Dawn Penn,
Ornette Coleman,
Dual Sessions,
Can,
Excepter,
Fad Gadget,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Blossom Toes,
Aloha Tigers,
Suburban Knight,
Rakim,
Mandrill,
Y Pants,
Leonard Cohen,
The Fortunes,
Shuggie Otis,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
D'Angelo,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Curtis Mayfield,
Josef K,
Toni Rubio,
Wire,
Rekid,
The Dead C,
Eric B and Rakim,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Boredoms,
Deepchord,
Scan 7,
OOIOO,
Bootsy Collins,
The Alarm Clocks,
Brothers Johnson,
Idris Muhammad,
Whodini,
The Standells,
Buzzcocks,
PIL,
Rotary Connection,
Freddie Wadling,
Groovy Waters,
The Young Rascals,
Goldenarms,
Massinfluence,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Cowsills,
Soft Machine,
F. McDonald,
Ponytail,
Boz Scaggs,
The Doors,
the Soft Cell,
Rod Modell,
Sonny Sharrock,
Tres Demented,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.