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 Turkey and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lille.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Royal Family And The Poor to the disco 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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All The Offenders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Saccharine Trust,
Rakim,
The Litter,
Skaos,
Rekid,
Flash Fearless,
The Martian,
Gang Starr,
Tim Buckley,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Kenny Larkin,
Warsaw,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Marc Almond,
Underground Resistance,
Warren Ellis,
Sonny Sharrock,
Flipper,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Nils Olav,
Bush Tetras,
Boz Scaggs,
The Pop Group,
the Soft Cell,
Glambeats Corp.,
Carl Craig,
Motorama,
Erasure,
Deadbeat,
The Doobie Brothers,
Aaron Thompson,
David McCallum,
John Holt,
Banda Bassotti,
Schoolly D,
Interpol,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Mark Hollis,
Crime,
KRS-One,
The Standells,
The United States of America,
Brass Construction,
The Blackbyrds,
Sonic Youth,
Ralphi Rosario,
Amon Düül,
Ponytail,
Neu!,
Nas,
The Cramps,
Man Eating Sloth,
Babytalk,
Scientists,
Faraquet,
Ultravox,
The Happenings,
Patti Smith,
Big Daddy Kane,
Arcadia,
Danielle Patucci,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Oneida, Oneida, Oneida, Oneida.
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.