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 Palau and from Jakarta.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 a-ha to the punk 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 Monks. All the underground hits.
All F. McDonald tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every KRS-One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Reuben Wilson,
Radiohead,
Anthony Braxton,
Cal Tjader,
Audionom,
Jeff Mills,
Anakelly,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Wake,
Drexciya,
Ohio Players,
Oblivians,
Chris & Cosey,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sparks,
Nirvana,
Fugazi,
Mo-Dettes,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Standells,
Can,
Erasure,
Terry Callier,
The Moody Blues,
Groovy Waters,
The Electric Prunes,
Minutemen,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Circle Jerks,
Hasil Adkins,
Banda Bassotti,
Wally Richardson,
Silicon Teens,
Japan,
Sixth Finger,
48th St. Collective,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Angry Samoans,
Pantytec,
The Fire Engines,
DJ Style,
Toni Rubio,
Nick Fraelich,
Urselle,
T.S.O.L.,
Camberwell Now,
10cc,
The Shadows of Knight,
John Holt,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Star Department,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sarah Menescal,
Alice Coltrane,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
DNA,
The J.B.'s,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.