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 Papua New Guinea and from Madrid.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Barrington Levy to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lafayette Afro Rock Band 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 spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cal Tjader record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Maleditus Sound,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Erykah Badu,
Pagans,
Grey Daturas,
Groovy Waters,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Icehouse,
Kerri Chandler,
The Knickerbockers,
D'Angelo,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Andrew Hill,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Matthew Bourne,
Pussy Galore,
F. McDonald,
The Selecter,
Quadrant,
Fat Boys,
Kerrie Biddell,
Dead Boys,
Nas,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Misunderstood,
Aaron Thompson,
E-Dancer,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Cowsills,
World's Most,
Derrick Morgan,
Fela Kuti,
10cc,
Rotary Connection,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Divine Comedy,
Wally Richardson,
Arcadia,
Barbara Tucker,
The Neon Judgement,
Half Japanese,
Cymande,
The Doobie Brothers,
Cluster,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Black Flag,
Radiohead,
The Sonics,
The J.B.'s,
Nils Olav,
Average White Band,
The Cramps,
The Moody Blues,
Mark Hollis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Roy Ayers,
Bob Dylan,
Kayak,
Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope.
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.