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 Australia and from Bremen.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Moebius to the electroclash 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 The Velvet Underground. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Morten Harket 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Carl Craig,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Black Flag,
Masters at Work,
World's Most,
The Monks,
Fela Kuti,
Sixth Finger,
Ornette Coleman,
Toni Rubio,
Soul II Soul,
The Shadows of Knight,
Pulsallama,
The Human League,
Urselle,
The Beau Brummels,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Joyce Sims,
Drexciya,
Pantaleimon,
The Young Rascals,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Erykah Badu,
China Crisis,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Byron Stingily,
Johnny Osbourne,
Flash Fearless,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Selecter,
Magma,
Visage,
Junior Murvin,
Television Personalities,
Lower 48,
Sister Nancy,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Gil Scott Heron,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Pagans,
Grauzone,
Soft Cell,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
James White and The Blacks,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Fluxion,
Neu!,
Jerry's Kids,
Kurtis Blow,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Cybotron,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Remains,
Lou Christie,
Moss Icon,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bluetip,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.