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 New Zealand and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 mellotron 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 Jeru the Damaja to the funk 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camouflage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rosa Yemen,
Godley & Creme,
Johnny Osbourne,
The New Christs,
The Gap Band,
Buzzcocks,
Scott Walker,
Liliput,
Bang On A Can,
Talk Talk,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Boz Scaggs,
Bronski Beat,
Nas,
Sonic Youth,
Aloha Tigers,
The Grass Roots,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
X-101,
Charles Mingus,
Severed Heads,
Nils Olav,
Derrick Morgan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sister Nancy,
The Smiths,
Soft Machine,
Scientists,
Unrelated Segments,
Q65,
Masters at Work,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Fall,
Mr. Review,
Man Eating Sloth,
Basic Channel,
Gichy Dan,
Cal Tjader,
The Fortunes,
Erykah Badu,
The Five Americans,
Ten City,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
B.T. Express,
Camouflage,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Icehouse,
The Modern Lovers,
Audionom,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Alton Ellis,
Average White Band,
Scan 7,
Eric Copeland,
the Sonics,
Funkadelic,
Prince Buster,
Neil Young,
Mark Hollis,
Hashim,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.