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 Guyana and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 synthesizer 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 Con Funk Shun to the rock 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain. All the underground hits.
All The Doobie Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Skatalites 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Starr,
Arthur Verocai,
Fad Gadget,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ornette Coleman,
Idris Muhammad,
Fela Kuti,
Sixth Finger,
Moebius,
Minutemen,
The Residents,
Jacob Miller,
Sarah Menescal,
the Bar-Kays,
Terrestrial Tones,
Stetsasonic,
Gang Green,
The Trojans,
The Fortunes,
The Offenders,
Ohio Players,
Yaz,
Lou Christie,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Visage,
Popol Vuh,
Big Daddy Kane,
the Soft Cell,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sam Rivers,
Jacques Brel,
Davy DMX,
Joy Division,
Nico,
Cameo,
Robert Wyatt,
Leonard Cohen,
The Evens,
OOIOO,
Drexciya,
The Golliwogs,
Lalann,
The Fuzztones,
Pharoah Sanders,
the Swans,
Essential Logic,
The Gap Band,
The Black Dice,
Eve St. Jones,
The Moody Blues,
The Kinks,
Das Ding,
Althea and Donna,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Chris & Cosey,
Nils Olav,
Unrelated Segments,
Jerry's Kids,
Pylon,
Jerry Gold Smith,
John Lydon,
The Real Kids,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.