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 Tonga and from Shanghai.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the rhodes 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 DJ Style to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Roxette. All the underground hits.
All Camberwell Now tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crash Course in Science record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harpers Bizarre,
Kaleidoscope,
The Cramps,
Crooked Eye,
Neil Young,
LL Cool J,
Skaos,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Gap Band,
The Fuzztones,
Jesper Dahlback,
Zapp,
Duran Duran,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Knickerbockers,
the Slits,
The Misunderstood,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Robert Wyatt,
Peter and Kerry,
Lalann,
Pylon,
Bootsy Collins,
The Victims,
Piero Umiliani,
Nick Fraelich,
Don Cherry,
Mark Hollis,
Chris Corsano,
The Gun Club,
Audionom,
Interpol,
Absolute Body Control,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sällskapet,
the Normal,
Black Pus,
Joensuu 1685,
Lower 48,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Liliput,
The Selecter,
Brass Construction,
Idris Muhammad,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Freddie Wadling,
the Germs,
The Move,
Desert Stars,
Rapeman,
Anakelly,
Pole,
Agitation Free,
The Litter,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jerry's Kids,
Ken Boothe,
In Retrospect,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Brand Nubian,
kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive.
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.