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 St Lucia and from Jakarta.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 In Retrospect to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 London Community Gospel Choir. All the underground hits.
All DJ Sneak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultra Naté record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
Archie Shepp,
the Human League,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Loose Ends,
Bootsy Collins,
DNA,
Ronnie Foster,
L. Decosne,
Make Up,
Max Romeo,
Television Personalities,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Wake,
James White and The Blacks,
Erasure,
Lyres,
Ponytail,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Cowsills,
Lower 48,
John Cale,
Connie Case,
The Monochrome Set,
Funky Four + One,
Black Flag,
The Techniques,
CMW,
The Raincoats,
Sexual Harrassment,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Cramps,
Brick,
Black Sheep,
JFA,
Sight & Sound,
Kaleidoscope,
Toni Rubio,
Yusef Lateef,
The Cure,
Niagra,
Soft Cell,
Skaos,
Gang Green,
Second Layer,
Fugazi,
Simply Red,
The Doors,
Wally Richardson,
Terry Callier,
Albert Ayler,
Amon Düül,
Fear,
Johnny Osbourne,
X-Ray Spex,
Goldenarms,
Al Stewart,
Bobby Sherman,
Sound Behaviour,
Swell Maps,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.