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 Saudi Arabia and from Toronto.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 EPMD to the rock 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 OOIOO. All the underground hits.
All Country Joe & The Fish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Divine Comedy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Moebius,
K-Klass,
Mars,
Bill Wells,
Lindisfarne,
Siglo XX,
Moss Icon,
Pussy Galore,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pylon,
Leonard Cohen,
Los Fastidios,
Dual Sessions,
Charles Mingus,
Vainqueur,
Pulsallama,
The Human League,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sandy B,
Parry Music,
The Pop Group,
The Five Americans,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Pole,
Lebanon Hanover,
Schoolly D,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Grauzone,
Ice-T,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Gap Band,
Drive Like Jehu,
Erykah Badu,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Wally Richardson,
Donny Hathaway,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lower 48,
Cymande,
Gang Gang Dance,
Howard Jones,
Ludus,
Ultra Naté,
Soulsonic Force,
Drexciya,
Jimmy McGriff,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nirvana,
The Dave Clark Five,
Khruangbin,
Deepchord,
The Raincoats,
Underground Resistance,
The J.B.'s,
Nik Kershaw,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.