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 Netherlands and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Names to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Panda Bear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amazonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sister Nancy,
Unwound,
Man Parrish,
Lungfish,
The Knickerbockers,
KRS-One,
Chris Corsano,
Black Moon,
Josef K,
Minnie Riperton,
X-102,
Yellowson,
Radiohead,
Liliput,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Iggy Pop,
Bad Manners,
Max Romeo,
John Foxx,
Can,
Second Layer,
Sonic Youth,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Silicon Teens,
Rod Modell,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Sound,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Soulsonic Force,
Pet Shop Boys,
Delta 5,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Banda Bassotti,
Mary Jane Girls,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
MC5,
The Neon Judgement,
Anakelly,
Surgeon,
Lalo Schifrin,
Mantronix,
Duran Duran,
John Lydon,
Minny Pops,
Yaz,
The Black Dice,
Nick Fraelich,
Fear,
John Holt,
The Gladiators,
Fugazi,
Peter and Kerry,
Tomorrow,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Yazoo,
Easy Going,
Todd Terry,
CMW, CMW, CMW, CMW.
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.