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 Mexico and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Marcia Griffiths to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All X-Ray Spex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marshall Jefferson 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a OOIOO record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Eddi Front,
The Stooges,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Silicon Teens,
Gang Green,
Jeff Lynne,
The Doors,
Lee Hazlewood,
Y Pants,
Goldenarms,
Organ,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Parry Music,
the Germs,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Minutemen,
Underground Resistance,
Pantytec,
The Dave Clark Five,
Arcadia,
Radio Birdman,
Sixth Finger,
Ronan,
Matthew Halsall,
Jandek,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Aural Exciters,
The Modern Lovers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Essential Logic,
Quando Quango,
Skaos,
Sonic Youth,
Urselle,
Eurythmics,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rakim,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Public Image Ltd.,
Grandmaster Flash,
Siglo XX,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nation of Ulysses,
Peter and Kerry,
John Cale,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Spoonie Gee,
Monks,
FM Einheit,
Skarface,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Raincoats,
Pole,
Piero Umiliani,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Robert Hood,
Deepchord,
Infiniti,
Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears.
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.