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 Barbados and from Lagos.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the 808 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 Minnie Riperton to the jazz 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 Electric Light Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All The Fall 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 crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ossler,
Sonny Sharrock,
Loose Ends,
Television Personalities,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Beau Brummels,
Archie Shepp,
Dave Gahan,
Bill Near,
ABC,
Bad Manners,
Visage,
Goldenarms,
Byron Stingily,
Warsaw,
Rod Modell,
The Mojo Men,
Marc Almond,
Avey Tare,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Litter,
Amon Düül II,
Mantronix,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jeff Mills,
Bluetip,
Tim Buckley,
Tubeway Army,
The Names,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Monochrome Set,
Amon Düül,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Little Man,
Country Joe & The Fish,
DJ Sneak,
Malaria!,
Iggy Pop,
The Stooges,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Hasil Adkins,
Joyce Sims,
The Busters,
10cc,
Maleditus Sound,
The Sound,
Unrelated Segments,
Althea and Donna,
Grey Daturas,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lakeside,
Blake Baxter,
Traffic Nightmare,
the Fania All-Stars,
Judy Mowatt,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Minnie Riperton,
Josef K,
Sonic Youth,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu.
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.