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 Taiwan and from Tehran.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Hashim to the disco 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 Cluster. All the underground hits.
All Minnie Riperton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Frankie Knuckles record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Happenings,
Arthur Verocai,
Brass Construction,
Mantronix,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Scott Walker,
Matthew Halsall,
Massinfluence,
Marine Girls,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
kango's stein massive,
Michelle Simonal,
Al Stewart,
Heaven 17,
Graham Central Station,
Simply Red,
Basic Channel,
the Bar-Kays,
Suicide,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kayak,
Boz Scaggs,
Pet Shop Boys,
Glambeats Corp.,
Kenny Larkin,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Mission of Burma,
Scrapy,
Spoonie Gee,
Tropical Tobacco,
ABBA,
The Neon Judgement,
Soul Sonic Force,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Organ,
Scratch Acid,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Magma,
The J.B.'s,
Cal Tjader,
Agitation Free,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rhythm & Sound,
the Soft Cell,
Joyce Sims,
OOIOO,
Neil Young,
The Stooges,
Funkadelic,
Bush Tetras,
The Red Krayola,
LL Cool J,
The Sonics,
Marvin Gaye,
The Doors,
Cluster,
Joey Negro,
The Slits,
Archie Shepp,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Index,
Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox.
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.