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 Sri Lanka and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 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 Toni Rubio to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Erykah Badu. All the underground hits.
All Anthony Braxton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Arcadia,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Drexciya,
The Busters,
Alison Limerick,
Altered Images,
Rakim,
Adolescents,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Skaos,
Fela Kuti,
Johnny Clarke,
Boogie Down Productions,
Los Fastidios,
Lightning Bolt,
Agent Orange,
Toni Rubio,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Moby Grape,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
A Certain Ratio,
Gerry Rafferty,
Joe Smooth,
Ludus,
Amazonics,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Radiopuhelimet,
Grandmaster Flash,
Wire,
David McCallum,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Agitation Free,
The Toasters,
Duran Duran,
Bang On A Can,
Magazine,
The Last Poets,
Interpol,
Funky Four + One,
Minor Threat,
The Victims,
Jandek,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Ronan,
Eurythmics,
Pere Ubu,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gang of Four,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Brand Nubian,
Wasted Youth,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ornette Coleman,
Fluxion,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Harry Pussy,
Kool Moe Dee,
Don Cherry,
Severed Heads, Severed Heads, Severed Heads, Severed Heads.
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.