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 Jamaica and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Bologna.
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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Swans to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Robert Görl. All the underground hits.
All Mandrill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Al Stewart record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jimmy McGriff,
Aswad,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Kinks,
Alton Ellis,
Siglo XX,
Whodini,
Gang of Four,
Eric Dolphy,
Chris & Cosey,
Erykah Badu,
The Toasters,
The Happenings,
Erasure,
Wally Richardson,
Wolf Eyes,
Dawn Penn,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kerri Chandler,
Johnny Osbourne,
Yusef Lateef,
The Slits,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Detroit Cobras,
June Days,
Niagra,
Crispy Ambulance,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
OOIOO,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ralphi Rosario,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Music Machine,
Bill Wells,
AZ,
Quadrant,
Marshall Jefferson,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Wasted Youth,
Peter & Gordon,
Deadbeat,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Gap Band,
New Age Steppers,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Reuben Wilson,
Nation of Ulysses,
Eve St. Jones,
Babytalk,
Khruangbin,
The Electric Prunes,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Simply Red,
The Techniques,
June of 44,
Jandek,
Laurel Aitken,
Kayak, Kayak, Kayak, Kayak.
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.