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 Albania and from Lille.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the oboe 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 Dorothy Ashby 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 Roy Ayers. All the underground hits.
All Mars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Art Ensemble Of Chicago record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moby Grape,
Kenny Larkin,
Scratch Acid,
Isaac Hayes,
Brothers Johnson,
Sun Ra,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Blues Magoos,
Alphaville,
The Remains,
Rhythm & Sound,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Jeff Mills,
Minutemen,
Marcia Griffiths,
Make Up,
Danielle Patucci,
FM Einheit,
the Sonics,
Eurythmics,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Scion,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Fugs,
Ponytail,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ultra Naté,
Ronnie Foster,
Scott Walker,
The Toasters,
Popol Vuh,
KRS-One,
Ituana,
Youth Brigade,
Wire,
The Tremeloes,
Nick Fraelich,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sexual Harrassment,
Cheater Slicks,
Second Layer,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Shuggie Otis,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ralphi Rosario,
Marc Almond,
Lakeside,
Alison Limerick,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Fad Gadget,
Qualms,
Moss Icon,
Scan 7,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Searchers,
The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light.
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.