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 Slovenia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 guitar 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Ultimate Spinach. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terror Squad Feat. Camron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maleditus Sound,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bronski Beat,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lyres,
Ultra Naté,
The Barracudas,
The Smoke,
Pantaleimon,
Niagra,
Peter & Gordon,
Bush Tetras,
Gregory Isaacs,
Oneida,
Cymande,
Jeru the Damaja,
Robert Wyatt,
The Stooges,
Spandau Ballet,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Scott Walker,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
A Certain Ratio,
The Raincoats,
Blancmange,
Black Flag,
Morten Harket,
The Star Department,
Unrelated Segments,
the Germs,
Kas Product,
La Düsseldorf,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Siglo XX,
Tommy Roe,
Nation of Ulysses,
Marcia Griffiths,
Todd Terry,
The Count Five,
Warsaw,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Accadde A,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Fortunes,
LL Cool J,
Reagan Youth,
The Misunderstood,
Sonic Youth,
Youth Brigade,
Los Fastidios,
Aswad,
Sun Ra,
The Fuzztones,
H. Thieme,
X-101,
ABBA,
Agent Orange,
Yellowson,
Procol Harum,
Joensuu 1685,
Radiopuhelimet,
Robert Hood,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.