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 Mali and from Mexico City.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the snare 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 Outsiders to the funk 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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All The Pretty Things tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minnie Riperton 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Negative Approach,
Jerry's Kids,
China Crisis,
Lindisfarne,
Surgeon,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Junior Murvin,
Morten Harket,
Second Layer,
Tears for Fears,
Minnie Riperton,
Average White Band,
The Mojo Men,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Peter and Kerry,
The Tremeloes,
The Busters,
Qualms,
Amazonics,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Newcleus,
Brothers Johnson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Slackers,
Talk Talk,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Popol Vuh,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Piero Umiliani,
Joensuu 1685,
Hashim,
Malaria!,
a-ha,
Agitation Free,
The Saints,
Patti Smith,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Black Flag,
June of 44,
Gichy Dan,
Johnny Clarke,
Cybotron,
Masters at Work,
Funky Four + One,
Matthew Halsall,
D'Angelo,
Lou Reed,
Panda Bear,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Modern Lovers,
Tropical Tobacco,
Section 25,
Archie Shepp,
the Swans,
Dorothy Ashby,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Steve Hackett,
Dennis Brown,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.