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 Poland and from Cairo.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Vainqueur to the rap 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 ABC. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Isaac Hayes,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Tim Buckley,
The Black Dice,
Urselle,
Stereo Dub,
Alton Ellis,
the Association,
The Zeros,
Quando Quango,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Warren Ellis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mission of Burma,
The Motions,
Icehouse,
the Fania All-Stars,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Gories,
World's Most,
The Angels of Light,
The Slackers,
a-ha,
Animal Collective,
R.M.O.,
Lucky Dragons,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Joy Division,
Vainqueur,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Alison Limerick,
Rhythm & Sound,
Whodini,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Gun Club,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Rotary Connection,
Soft Cell,
Kayak,
Au Pairs,
CMW,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Avey Tare,
Agent Orange,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bronski Beat,
John Cale,
Archie Shepp,
Lindisfarne,
Derrick Morgan,
Pole,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Heaven 17,
The Detroit Cobras,
Tommy Roe,
Lou Reed,
Kurtis Blow,
the Sonics,
Surgeon,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Cramps,
Joey Negro,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.