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 Belize and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Mumbai.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Divine Comedy to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs. All the underground hits.
All Rites of Spring tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Charles Mingus,
Gabor Szabo,
Symarip,
Goldenarms,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The New Christs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Neon Judgement,
Camouflage,
D'Angelo,
The Blackbyrds,
Marmalade,
Fatback Band,
Gang Green,
Jeff Lynne,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Janne Schatter,
Radiopuhelimet,
Bill Wells,
The Index,
Jandek,
JFA,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Crime,
Barclay James Harvest,
LL Cool J,
8 Eyed Spy,
Radiohead,
The Slackers,
The Fortunes,
Sun City Girls,
Desert Stars,
Albert Ayler,
Bad Manners,
Barry Ungar,
Todd Terry,
The Knickerbockers,
Amon Düül II,
Trumans Water,
These Immortal Souls,
June of 44,
John Cale,
Sarah Menescal,
The Searchers,
The Victims,
Cybotron,
CMW,
Monks,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Michelle Simonal,
In Retrospect,
Avey Tare,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Dual Sessions,
Grauzone,
Minutemen,
Hot Snakes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Max Romeo,
Josef K,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.