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 Thailand and from Lille.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the 808 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Ohio Players. All the underground hits.
All The Mojo Men tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every It's A Beautiful Day 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eve St. Jones,
Zapp,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gong,
Q and Not U,
Gang Starr,
Easy Going,
Symarip,
ABBA,
These Immortal Souls,
Eddi Front,
JFA,
David Axelrod,
Davy DMX,
Hardrive,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pantaleimon,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Hasil Adkins,
John Foxx,
Henry Cow,
Infiniti,
Hashim,
Tropical Tobacco,
Hoover,
Roy Ayers,
China Crisis,
Aloha Tigers,
Magazine,
the Normal,
Vainqueur,
Susan Cadogan,
The Flesh Eaters,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Young Rascals,
Fela Kuti,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Nico,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Martian,
the Human League,
The Mojo Men,
Pussy Galore,
The Grass Roots,
Stetsasonic,
Kerrie Biddell,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Deadbeat,
Cal Tjader,
Audionom,
This Heat,
Gang Green,
Sonic Youth,
Soul Sonic Force,
Tom Boy,
Nation of Ulysses,
Soft Cell,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Boogie Down Productions,
Mission of Burma,
Rites of Spring,
LL Cool J,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.