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 Ukraine and from Salvador.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Rod Modell to the jazz 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 Porter Ricks. All the underground hits.
All Slave tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Talk Talk,
10cc,
the Human League,
Nik Kershaw,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Danielle Patucci,
AZ,
Shuggie Otis,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Fortunes,
Anthony Braxton,
Dawn Penn,
Frankie Knuckles,
Godley & Creme,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Vladislav Delay,
Quadrant,
The Count Five,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Radiopuhelimet,
Nils Olav,
The Fire Engines,
Gang of Four,
Surgeon,
Derrick Morgan,
The Toasters,
Roger Hodgson,
Ohio Players,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Albert Ayler,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Glambeats Corp.,
Porter Ricks,
Al Stewart,
Gil Scott Heron,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Livin' Joy,
Negative Approach,
Bootsy Collins,
Roy Ayers,
Echospace,
Sound Behaviour,
The Cramps,
The Real Kids,
Magma,
T.S.O.L.,
John Lydon,
Minutemen,
Mad Mike,
Robert Hood,
Mr. Review,
Malaria!,
LL Cool J,
Fatback Band,
Audionom,
Black Moon,
Agent Orange,
Aural Exciters,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.