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 Kosovo and from Calgary.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the organ 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 Man Eating Sloth 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 Fela Kuti. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joensuu 1685,
Audionom,
Pagans,
Yaz,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Mummies,
Man Eating Sloth,
Soft Machine,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Joey Negro,
Animal Collective,
Isaac Hayes,
Pet Shop Boys,
Nils Olav,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sex Pistols,
In Retrospect,
Skriet,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
DNA,
Al Stewart,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Yellowson,
Sparks,
Cecil Taylor,
Davy DMX,
Suburban Knight,
Terry Callier,
Von Mondo,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Mark Hollis,
The Doors,
Essential Logic,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Aloha Tigers,
Pussy Galore,
KRS-One,
Metal Thangz,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The J.B.'s,
The Offenders,
China Crisis,
Eden Ahbez,
Wire,
Symarip,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Magma,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Jeru the Damaja,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lou Christie,
Kevin Saunderson,
Todd Rundgren,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
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Erykah Badu,
The Pretty Things,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.