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 Laos and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Minny Pops to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch. All the underground hits.
All Cheater Slicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mojo Men record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 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 linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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?
Junior Murvin,
James White and The Blacks,
Barbara Tucker,
Absolute Body Control,
the Bar-Kays,
The Raincoats,
Bill Wells,
Charles Mingus,
Wally Richardson,
Procol Harum,
Pierre Henry,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Khruangbin,
Matthew Bourne,
Q and Not U,
Sound Behaviour,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Jeff Lynne,
Albert Ayler,
JFA,
The Move,
Smog,
Roger Hodgson,
the Association,
Ultra Naté,
Nick Fraelich,
Pharoah Sanders,
Hasil Adkins,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Blancmange,
Kenny Larkin,
Zapp,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Avey Tare,
Marshall Jefferson,
Chrome,
Toni Rubio,
Sun City Girls,
Cecil Taylor,
Sun Ra,
Technova,
The Seeds,
Peter & Gordon,
Bauhaus,
Y Pants,
The Cure,
Howard Jones,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Knickerbockers,
10cc,
Minnie Riperton,
Kevin Saunderson,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Don Cherry,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
a-ha,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.