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 Bologna.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 organ 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 Liliput to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Steve Hackett,
The Fortunes,
Isaac Hayes,
the Association,
Wasted Youth,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Surgeon,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Reuben Wilson,
Jacob Miller,
The Durutti Column,
Nico,
Funkadelic,
In Retrospect,
Althea and Donna,
Colin Newman,
Second Layer,
Livin' Joy,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sister Nancy,
The Tremeloes,
Judy Mowatt,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Marcia Griffiths,
Barry Ungar,
Gichy Dan,
Interpol,
Crash Course in Science,
A Certain Ratio,
The Real Kids,
Glenn Branca,
Model 500,
The Star Department,
Sandy B,
Schoolly D,
Erykah Badu,
Black Pus,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Massinfluence,
Cameo,
Patti Smith,
Ohio Players,
Bizarre Inc.,
Porter Ricks,
Amazonics,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ultra Naté,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Monks,
Pylon,
Sparks,
Stiv Bators,
Minor Threat,
Sex Pistols,
Mary Jane Girls,
Los Fastidios,
Bootsy Collins,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.