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 Armenia and from Edmonton.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 chamberlin 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 Newcleus to the rock 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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kurtis Blow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
Negative Approach,
Pharoah Sanders,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Avey Tare,
Colin Newman,
Grandmaster Flash,
Newcleus,
The Slits,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Prince Buster,
Ten City,
Magma,
Hoover,
The Golliwogs,
The Fall,
Simply Red,
Agitation Free,
MC5,
Liliput,
Letta Mbulu,
Connie Case,
Black Flag,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Minutemen,
Minny Pops,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Sonics,
Smog,
Ituana,
ABBA,
Pere Ubu,
The Busters,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Dark Day,
The Gories,
Gregory Isaacs,
Fatback Band,
Crash Course in Science,
Fluxion,
The Monochrome Set,
The Gap Band,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
the Association,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Black Moon,
Mr. Review,
Young Marble Giants,
The Victims,
the Slits,
John Holt,
Intrusion,
Neil Young,
John Coltrane,
Radiohead,
KRS-One,
The Last Poets,
The J.B.'s,
Bluetip,
Drive Like Jehu,
B.T. Express,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Heaven 17,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.