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 Senegal and from Jakarta.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs to the grunge 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine. All the underground hits.
All Archie Shepp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yellowson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
Leonard Cohen,
Derrick May,
Hasil Adkins,
Hardrive,
The Dave Clark Five,
Guru Guru,
Zapp,
The Mojo Men,
Oblivians,
China Crisis,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Flipper,
Aswad,
Chris & Cosey,
Mandrill,
Audionom,
Television Personalities,
Visage,
Talk Talk,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Pharoah Sanders,
Lou Reed,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rufus Thomas,
Inner City,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Alice Coltrane,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Simply Red,
PIL,
Black Pus,
Scrapy,
Smog,
Johnny Osbourne,
Parry Music,
The Shadows of Knight,
Lungfish,
Dennis Brown,
Magma,
Byron Stingily,
The Smiths,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sparks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Robert Görl,
EPMD,
E-Dancer,
U.S. Maple,
Excepter,
Crash Course in Science,
Grandmaster Flash,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Roger Hodgson,
Cheater Slicks,
The Fuzztones,
the Soft Cell,
the Human League,
Joy Division,
The Cowsills,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Barry Ungar,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys.
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.