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 Singapore and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Seoul.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Fear to the disco 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 James Chance & The Contortions. All the underground hits.
All Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lonnie Liston Smith 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brand Nubian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glambeats Corp.,
Brick,
The Five Americans,
Pussy Galore,
Banda Bassotti,
Arab on Radar,
Lower 48,
The Standells,
Soul II Soul,
Junior Murvin,
The Fall,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Animal Collective,
Monolake,
The Happenings,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Siglo XX,
Rufus Thomas,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ituana,
Delta 5,
Nirvana,
Fad Gadget,
Zapp,
Amon Düül II,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sällskapet,
Magma,
Tubeway Army,
Accadde A,
Connie Case,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
A Certain Ratio,
UT,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
X-102,
Saccharine Trust,
The Birthday Party,
Aloha Tigers,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Gang Gang Dance,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Trumans Water,
Patti Smith,
Monks,
Bobby Sherman,
Television Personalities,
Sugar Minott,
Rhythm & Sound,
Surgeon,
Vladislav Delay,
Radiohead,
David Bowie,
Slave,
Bob Dylan,
Traffic Nightmare,
Funkadelic,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bang On A Can,
the Germs,
Jandek, Jandek, Jandek, Jandek.
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.