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 Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Robert Palmer 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 Monks to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All Stiv Bators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sight & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Rundgren record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Young Rascals,
Amon Düül II,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
48th St. Collective,
Index,
Maurizio,
Spoonie Gee,
Monks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Trojans,
The Slackers,
Robert Görl,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Grass Roots,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Saints,
Scott Walker,
cv313,
Thompson Twins,
Bobby Womack,
Banda Bassotti,
Black Sheep,
Suburban Knight,
Fluxion,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
China Crisis,
Pharoah Sanders,
Zero Boys,
Lee Hazlewood,
Barclay James Harvest,
Trumans Water,
Cal Tjader,
Roxette,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Cure,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bobby Sherman,
Vladislav Delay,
The Flesh Eaters,
Half Japanese,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sexual Harrassment,
Kerri Chandler,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Hutcherson,
the Germs,
the Human League,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Joyce Sims,
Spandau Ballet,
Animal Collective,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Gang Green,
the Normal,
Hoover,
Bizarre Inc.,
Angry Samoans,
Nick Fraelich,
The Offenders,
Cymande, Cymande, Cymande, Cymande.
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.