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 New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Babytalk to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All Desert Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Letta Mbulu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fifty Foot Hose record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Quantec,
FM Einheit,
Mad Mike,
Severed Heads,
Barrington Levy,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Harmonia,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Smiths,
kango's stein massive,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ohio Players,
Swell Maps,
Crooked Eye,
Boz Scaggs,
Roxy Music,
The Smoke,
Kevin Saunderson,
CMW,
Davy DMX,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Angels of Light,
Neu!,
Soul Sonic Force,
Marshall Jefferson,
DJ Sneak,
Jeff Lynne,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Aaron Thompson,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sun City Girls,
A Certain Ratio,
Smog,
Dave Gahan,
Blossom Toes,
Sparks,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Cal Tjader,
Pulsallama,
Sex Pistols,
Tears for Fears,
Althea and Donna,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Cure,
The Move,
Eli Mardock,
The Remains,
F. McDonald,
Scan 7,
X-102,
Panda Bear,
Piero Umiliani,
Glambeats Corp.,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Johnny Clarke,
a-ha,
Ken Boothe,
The Barracudas,
LL Cool J,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.