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 Lithuania and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 oboe 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 The United States of America to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Wolf Eyes. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharoah Sanders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Flash Fearless,
Mark Hollis,
Swell Maps,
The Durutti Column,
Severed Heads,
Monolake,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Erykah Badu,
Section 25,
Maleditus Sound,
Babytalk,
The Skatalites,
Jawbox,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Amazonics,
Ronan,
Rotary Connection,
Radiopuhelimet,
Von Mondo,
Nation of Ulysses,
Delta 5,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Last Poets,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Robert Wyatt,
Massinfluence,
Leonard Cohen,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Al Stewart,
Audionom,
Lalann,
Yellowson,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lower 48,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
In Retrospect,
The Leaves,
Fear,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Crispy Ambulance,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Robert Görl,
Junior Murvin,
Y Pants,
Suburban Knight,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Harmonia,
Public Enemy,
Black Pus,
The Sound,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ponytail,
Royal Trux,
Vainqueur,
The Fire Engines,
Eli Mardock,
Kas Product,
Ultravox,
John Lydon,
The Birthday Party,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gabor Szabo,
Symarip, Symarip, Symarip, Symarip.
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.