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 Kenya and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 clarinet 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 Fela Kuti to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All Eyeless In Gaza tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
Sandy B,
The Detroit Cobras,
ABBA,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Siglo XX,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jacob Miller,
Tears for Fears,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Stetsasonic,
Buzzcocks,
Ossler,
Neil Young,
Jeru the Damaja,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Skarface,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Symarip,
Bill Near,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Birthday Party,
Mandrill,
Liliput,
Lalann,
The Electric Prunes,
Roger Hodgson,
Tomorrow,
Sexual Harrassment,
Procol Harum,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Oblivians,
Johnny Clarke,
Anthony Braxton,
Marc Almond,
Graham Central Station,
Hot Snakes,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Tubeway Army,
the Sonics,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Radio Birdman,
Morten Harket,
the Normal,
The Wake,
Sound Behaviour,
Sixth Finger,
Kerri Chandler,
Sparks,
Barry Ungar,
The Young Rascals,
Jandek,
Cymande,
The Divine Comedy,
Silicon Teens,
cv313,
Mission of Burma,
Thee Headcoats,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.