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 Niger and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Michelle Simonal to the funk 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 Nas. All the underground hits.
All Metal Thangz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-Ray Spex record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott Heron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funky Four + One,
Deakin,
Young Marble Giants,
cv313,
Robert Hood,
Lungfish,
The Leaves,
Isaac Hayes,
Darondo,
Ornette Coleman,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Bill Near,
Nico,
The Gun Club,
Panda Bear,
Dave Gahan,
Parry Music,
the Bar-Kays,
Grandmaster Flash,
EPMD,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Divine Comedy,
Model 500,
Cal Tjader,
Pulsallama,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Derrick May,
kango's stein massive,
The Buckinghams,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lou Reed,
Gong,
The Wake,
Zero Boys,
Fela Kuti,
Liliput,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Soft Cell,
The Raincoats,
The Mummies,
Goldenarms,
Rites of Spring,
Rekid,
Rakim,
Flash Fearless,
Yusef Lateef,
Japan,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Nils Olav,
Bad Manners,
The Zeros,
Smog,
Pierre Henry,
Skriet,
Kurtis Blow,
Kayak,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sam Rivers,
The Cure,
Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster.
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.