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 East Timor and from London.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Procol Harum to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Brothers Johnson. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Soft Cell,
Sarah Menescal,
Bill Wells,
Warren Ellis,
Erykah Badu,
Bronski Beat,
Boredoms,
Bob Dylan,
Jimmy McGriff,
Maurizio,
Joyce Sims,
Flipper,
Radiopuhelimet,
Aloha Tigers,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Alison Limerick,
Stockholm Monsters,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Nils Olav,
Cymande,
The Gladiators,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Minny Pops,
Alton Ellis,
Flash Fearless,
Bobby Womack,
Amon Düül II,
Pole,
The Fugs,
Stetsasonic,
Schoolly D,
Second Layer,
Derrick May,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Procol Harum,
The Mummies,
Sun City Girls,
Reagan Youth,
The Techniques,
Pussy Galore,
Eddi Front,
Lucky Dragons,
Sandy B,
Tubeway Army,
Wolf Eyes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Susan Cadogan,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Suicide,
Girls At Our Best!,
Blancmange,
Yellowson,
Darondo,
Black Bananas,
LL Cool J,
John Foxx,
The Skatalites,
The Grass Roots,
Rekid,
Aswad,
Mars,
Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan.
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.