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 Zimbabwe and from Glasgow.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
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 Infiniti 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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Human League 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crash Course in Science record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Babytalk,
The Tremeloes,
R.M.O.,
Sly & The Family Stone,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Remains,
DJ Sneak,
Soft Machine,
Bobby Sherman,
Dawn Penn,
Piero Umiliani,
Barclay James Harvest,
Cybotron,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Neu!,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
the Slits,
Television Personalities,
Boz Scaggs,
The Gladiators,
Jeff Lynne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rosa Yemen,
Lee Hazlewood,
Flash Fearless,
Eli Mardock,
Arthur Verocai,
The Skatalites,
The Human League,
The Motions,
Average White Band,
Juan Atkins,
Soft Cell,
Pantaleimon,
the Fania All-Stars,
Hashim,
Theoretical Girls,
Josef K,
The Smiths,
Yaz,
Carl Craig,
Public Enemy,
Simply Red,
Letta Mbulu,
The Buckinghams,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
10cc,
DNA,
Roy Ayers,
Joensuu 1685,
Wings,
the Sonics,
Schoolly D,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Black Pus,
David Axelrod,
Saccharine Trust,
Au Pairs,
Delon & Dalcan,
Drive Like Jehu,
Mars, Mars, Mars, Mars.
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.