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 Luxembourg and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Guru Guru tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mr. Review record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pulsallama,
Model 500,
Tomorrow,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Trojans,
Minnie Riperton,
Faraquet,
Quantec,
Parry Music,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Joey Negro,
Visage,
Urselle,
Joe Finger,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pagans,
Anakelly,
Erykah Badu,
Toni Rubio,
8 Eyed Spy,
John Lydon,
James White and The Blacks,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Spoonie Gee,
Reagan Youth,
Whodini,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sam Rivers,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Panda Bear,
The Fugs,
Sandy B,
Guru Guru,
The Associates,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Amazonics,
Altered Images,
Kenny Larkin,
Subhumans,
Swell Maps,
Excepter,
New Order,
Ten City,
Sonic Youth,
The Offenders,
The Sound,
Pharoah Sanders,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Suburban Knight,
Can,
Gichy Dan,
The Selecter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Cure,
Icehouse,
The Vogues,
Alice Coltrane,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.