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 Estonia 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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Brand Nubian to the jazz 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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All John Lydon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Durutti Column record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
New York Dolls,
Gabor Szabo,
the Swans,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Von Mondo,
The Shadows of Knight,
the Fania All-Stars,
Prince Buster,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Misunderstood,
LL Cool J,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Excepter,
Grauzone,
Skaos,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Gladiators,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Schoolly D,
Hoover,
Jeff Mills,
The Pretty Things,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Negative Approach,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sam Rivers,
Cybotron,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Leaves,
MDC,
Lebanon Hanover,
Soul Sonic Force,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ultravox,
David Bowie,
Black Moon,
Terry Callier,
Unrelated Segments,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Marshall Jefferson,
Big Daddy Kane,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Gun Club,
Sunsets and Hearts,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Detroit Cobras,
Stiv Bators,
Vainqueur,
The Barracudas,
UT,
Rapeman,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Make Up,
Slick Rick,
The Dead C,
The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans.
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.