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 Serbia and from Edmonton.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the marimba 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 Marshall Jefferson to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All Beasts of Bourbon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Kenny Larkin,
Ludus,
Sexual Harrassment,
H. Thieme,
Eurythmics,
Marmalade,
Metal Thangz,
Procol Harum,
Talk Talk,
Basic Channel,
Alton Ellis,
The Blackbyrds,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Severed Heads,
Au Pairs,
The Slackers,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Angry Samoans,
Wally Richardson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
David McCallum,
Johnny Osbourne,
Tim Buckley,
Glenn Branca,
Susan Cadogan,
The Trojans,
Yusef Lateef,
Carl Craig,
Public Image Ltd.,
Guru Guru,
Todd Terry,
Soft Machine,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Slave,
The Gap Band,
The Monochrome Set,
Can,
Minnie Riperton,
FM Einheit,
T.S.O.L.,
Isaac Hayes,
Monks,
Echospace,
Brass Construction,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rod Modell,
Kevin Saunderson,
Godley & Creme,
Maurizio,
Morten Harket,
The Martian,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Residents,
Brand Nubian,
Colin Newman,
The Velvet Underground,
Marine Girls,
Nation of Ulysses,
X-102,
Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red.
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.