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 Kenya 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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
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 Bootsy Collins to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Silicon Teens. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brand Nubian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Outsiders,
Pagans,
Panda Bear,
The Searchers,
Unwound,
Soul II Soul,
Rhythm & Sound,
World's Most,
Fad Gadget,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Boz Scaggs,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Harmonia,
Pantaleimon,
Blancmange,
Underground Resistance,
Neu!,
The Flesh Eaters,
Brothers Johnson,
The Cowsills,
Black Moon,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Moss Icon,
Minny Pops,
Tim Buckley,
Kenny Larkin,
Nils Olav,
Kerri Chandler,
Wally Richardson,
The Skatalites,
Nation of Ulysses,
Roy Ayers,
Terry Callier,
The Gladiators,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
UT,
The Sound,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Urselle,
The Dead C,
Albert Ayler,
The United States of America,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Gabor Szabo,
Susan Cadogan,
The Monks,
Rapeman,
Inner City,
Rosa Yemen,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Fugazi,
Moby Grape,
The Doobie Brothers,
ABC,
PIL,
Anakelly,
Organ,
Amon Düül II,
Sister Nancy,
Rufus Thomas,
Massinfluence,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.