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 Peru and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Madrid.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 John Cale to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Andrew Hill. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Residents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Malaria!,
Masters at Work,
Brass Construction,
Liliput,
X-102,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Das Ding,
Los Fastidios,
The J.B.'s,
Kenny Larkin,
Unrelated Segments,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
X-Ray Spex,
The Cowsills,
Ituana,
Morten Harket,
Nico,
Stetsasonic,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Absolute Body Control,
Gichy Dan,
The Blues Magoos,
Easy Going,
Niagra,
Ponytail,
Public Enemy,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Al Stewart,
H. Thieme,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Black Sheep,
Ohio Players,
Minor Threat,
Thee Headcoats,
Pylon,
Eric Copeland,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Judy Mowatt,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Joe Smooth,
Technova,
Kerrie Biddell,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ludus,
Cameo,
Lungfish,
The Litter,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Babytalk,
Pole,
Barclay James Harvest,
Derrick May,
Scrapy,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Roy Ayers,
Marmalade,
Underground Resistance,
Tomorrow,
Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor.
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.