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 Vietnam and from Copenhagen.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Scan 7 to the rock 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 Junior Murvin. All the underground hits.
All The Mummies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Idris Muhammad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Prince Buster,
The Cure,
The Associates,
T. Rex,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Index,
Lee Hazlewood,
Glambeats Corp.,
Au Pairs,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Rapeman,
Crime,
The Buckinghams,
Silicon Teens,
Boredoms,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Junior Murvin,
Hardrive,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scan 7,
Pussy Galore,
Shoche,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Joe Finger,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sparks,
Donny Hathaway,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Invisible,
Ituana,
Dark Day,
Minnie Riperton,
CMW,
The Pop Group,
Byron Stingily,
Unwound,
Bronski Beat,
Blossom Toes,
Brass Construction,
Angry Samoans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Arthur Verocai,
Black Sheep,
Tropical Tobacco,
Guru Guru,
The Stooges,
L. Decosne,
Eli Mardock,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Fortunes,
The Gladiators,
Babytalk,
Tubeway Army,
Anthony Braxton,
Jeff Mills,
Scott Walker,
Masters at Work,
Pylon,
Sonny Sharrock,
Infiniti,
Lakeside,
Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy.
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.