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 Madagascar and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 arpeggiator 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 Gang of Four to the jazz 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 Eric B and Rakim. All the underground hits.
All Oblivians tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Letta Mbulu 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Light Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sonic Youth,
Motorama,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Dave Clark Five,
Goldenarms,
The Doobie Brothers,
Eddi Front,
Suicide,
Warren Ellis,
Chris Corsano,
The Stooges,
Piero Umiliani,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
John Holt,
Throbbing Gristle,
a-ha,
Fad Gadget,
Marvin Gaye,
Gastr Del Sol,
Soulsonic Force,
Matthew Halsall,
Peter & Gordon,
CMW,
The Residents,
Supertramp,
Jeru the Damaja,
Kevin Saunderson,
Subhumans,
The Remains,
Panda Bear,
Wire,
Y Pants,
Lightning Bolt,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Blackbyrds,
Dawn Penn,
Rod Modell,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
David McCallum,
Deadbeat,
The Modern Lovers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
China Crisis,
Cluster,
Gang of Four,
The Vogues,
Kurtis Blow,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Gories,
The Techniques,
the Human League,
Pantaleimon,
Jacob Miller,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment.
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.