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 Iraq and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Salvador.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Slick Rick to the rap 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron. All the underground hits.
All Funkadelic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul Sonic Force,
Delon & Dalcan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barry Ungar,
10cc,
Harmonia,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Smiths,
DJ Sneak,
The Litter,
Scrapy,
Television,
Tommy Roe,
Heaven 17,
Alton Ellis,
Shuggie Otis,
the Slits,
Alice Coltrane,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sex Pistols,
Sixth Finger,
Minor Threat,
Girls At Our Best!,
Harpers Bizarre,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scan 7,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Rod Modell,
Johnny Osbourne,
Basic Channel,
Michelle Simonal,
Tim Buckley,
London Community Gospel Choir,
New Order,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Dave Gahan,
Gang Gang Dance,
Television Personalities,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
These Immortal Souls,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Echospace,
Kool Moe Dee,
Minutemen,
ABC,
Groovy Waters,
Todd Terry,
John Coltrane,
Blossom Toes,
Rotary Connection,
Gang of Four,
The Velvet Underground,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Porter Ricks,
Oblivians,
Magazine,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
kango's stein massive,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
John Lydon,
Lakeside,
Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy.
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.