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 Andorra and from Philadelphia.
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 Manchester and Hong Kong.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the organ 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 Ash Ra Tempel to the crunk 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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Eyeless In Gaza tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Traffic Nightmare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lou Christie,
Sonic Youth,
Alison Limerick,
Andrew Hill,
The Five Americans,
Soft Cell,
Erykah Badu,
Albert Ayler,
Underground Resistance,
Neil Young,
The Trojans,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Depeche Mode,
Porter Ricks,
Grey Daturas,
Joensuu 1685,
The Young Rascals,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Desert Stars,
The Seeds,
Flipper,
Masters at Work,
Todd Terry,
Pet Shop Boys,
Matthew Bourne,
Michelle Simonal,
Crispian St. Peters,
Mark Hollis,
Television Personalities,
Alton Ellis,
The Vogues,
Procol Harum,
Jacob Miller,
DNA,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Henry Cow,
Blake Baxter,
The Smiths,
Saccharine Trust,
The Blackbyrds,
The Fuzztones,
The Victims,
Bang On A Can,
the Bar-Kays,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Robert Görl,
Pere Ubu,
D'Angelo,
Pole,
Dorothy Ashby,
UT,
The Red Krayola,
Schoolly D,
ABBA,
Harry Pussy,
Tres Demented,
The Black Dice,
Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid.
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.