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 Afghanistan and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 Woodstock and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 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 Babytalk to the electroclash 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 Judy Mowatt. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Panda Bear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Lynne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed,
the Slits,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Velvet Underground,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Doors,
Avey Tare,
Tom Boy,
Radiohead,
Gil Scott Heron,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Bronski Beat,
The Index,
Section 25,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kerri Chandler,
These Immortal Souls,
Average White Band,
Basic Channel,
Public Enemy,
Amazonics,
Idris Muhammad,
Sugar Minott,
Toni Rubio,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Max Romeo,
Faust,
Circle Jerks,
The Modern Lovers,
Danielle Patucci,
Roy Ayers,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Kinks,
Bobby Byrd,
Ituana,
Erasure,
K-Klass,
Eden Ahbez,
Spoonie Gee,
China Crisis,
Excepter,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
One Last Wish,
8 Eyed Spy,
Tres Demented,
Pole,
UT,
Joy Division,
Fluxion,
Tears for Fears,
Eric Copeland,
Neu!,
Niagra,
Jesper Dahlback,
Porter Ricks,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Panda Bear,
Accadde A,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Gap Band,
The Flesh Eaters,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds.
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.