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 Morocco 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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Main Source to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a This Heat 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?
The Young Rascals,
Quando Quango,
Piero Umiliani,
These Immortal Souls,
Peter & Gordon,
Barclay James Harvest,
Dual Sessions,
Joey Negro,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Radiopuhelimet,
Morten Harket,
Skarface,
Crispy Ambulance,
Brothers Johnson,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Todd Terry,
Black Moon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Evens,
Scion,
The Cramps,
Siglo XX,
Moby Grape,
Lucky Dragons,
Television,
Cal Tjader,
Can,
Vladislav Delay,
Vainqueur,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Electric Prunes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Barracudas,
Sun City Girls,
A Flock of Seagulls,
the Swans,
Fela Kuti,
Drive Like Jehu,
Fat Boys,
Faust,
Massinfluence,
Rites of Spring,
Tears for Fears,
Mars,
The Blackbyrds,
Arab on Radar,
Wings,
Symarip,
The Buckinghams,
Minnie Riperton,
Skriet,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
the Slits,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Raincoats,
Sexual Harrassment,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Dave Clark Five,
Rufus Thomas,
Idris Muhammad,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Mojo Men,
Fugazi,
Das Ding,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.