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 South Sudan and from Lyon.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 marimba 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All the Association tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skarface record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeru the Damaja record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
Kevin Saunderson,
Derrick May,
Stetsasonic,
Franke,
These Immortal Souls,
Crispy Ambulance,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Swans,
Hardrive,
The Moody Blues,
Junior Murvin,
The Invisible,
The Sonics,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
La Düsseldorf,
PIL,
Boz Scaggs,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Fad Gadget,
Wally Richardson,
The Fugs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Barrington Levy,
Aural Exciters,
Kerrie Biddell,
Derrick Morgan,
Camouflage,
The Vogues,
CMW,
The Busters,
Main Source,
Peter and Kerry,
Soft Cell,
A Certain Ratio,
The Wake,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jeff Mills,
The Young Rascals,
Marmalade,
Quando Quango,
Susan Cadogan,
Al Stewart,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bronski Beat,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Maleditus Sound,
Althea and Donna,
Lower 48,
Roxette,
Amon Düül II,
ABC,
The Knickerbockers,
Laurel Aitken,
The Buckinghams,
Graham Central Station,
Jeff Lynne,
Radiohead,
Davy DMX,
Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force.
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.