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 Thailand and from Columbus.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Stockholm Monsters to the rock 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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All The Fortunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blackbyrds 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reagan Youth,
Idris Muhammad,
The Move,
Frankie Knuckles,
These Immortal Souls,
Skarface,
Joey Negro,
Alton Ellis,
Fad Gadget,
Nick Fraelich,
the Association,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Isaac Hayes,
David McCallum,
Laurel Aitken,
Can,
Bizarre Inc.,
Niagra,
Youth Brigade,
LL Cool J,
the Human League,
The Grass Roots,
Liliput,
The Toasters,
Stetsasonic,
Icehouse,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Crash Course in Science,
Bill Wells,
Gang Green,
Soulsonic Force,
Matthew Halsall,
Quantec,
Brass Construction,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Deadbeat,
The Birthday Party,
Negative Approach,
Saccharine Trust,
Agent Orange,
Lou Christie,
Stereo Dub,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Scrapy,
Smog,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Carl Craig,
Dorothy Ashby,
Zero Boys,
Eric Copeland,
Albert Ayler,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Delta 5,
Peter & Gordon,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.