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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Beijing.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 clarinet 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 Tom Boy to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Cosmic Jokers. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Scion,
JFA,
Anthony Braxton,
Glenn Branca,
DJ Sneak,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Buckinghams,
The J.B.'s,
Albert Ayler,
DNA,
The Neon Judgement,
Pantaleimon,
Deepchord,
Peter & Gordon,
Flipper,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
10cc,
Terrestrial Tones,
Rufus Thomas,
Marvin Gaye,
Arab on Radar,
Smog,
Minny Pops,
Mo-Dettes,
Reuben Wilson,
Robert Hood,
Technova,
Sun Ra,
Marmalade,
Niagra,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
This Heat,
Intrusion,
Matthew Bourne,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Neu!,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sam Rivers,
Los Fastidios,
The Music Machine,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Soul Sonic Force,
UT,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Judy Mowatt,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Monolake,
Ronnie Foster,
Procol Harum,
ABC,
the Soft Cell,
Barbara Tucker,
Howard Jones,
The Black Dice,
Model 500,
Saccharine Trust,
Marshall Jefferson,
FM Einheit,
Dual Sessions,
Hardrive,
The Toasters,
The Leaves,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.