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 Kenya 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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 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 Lalann to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Maurizio. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Steve Hackett 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warsaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacques Brel,
Cecil Taylor,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rhythm & Sound,
Electric Prunes,
Quadrant,
Country Teasers,
Erykah Badu,
The Human League,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Rotary Connection,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Alison Limerick,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Smog,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Man Parrish,
Wire,
Public Enemy,
Mr. Review,
Minutemen,
The Toasters,
A Certain Ratio,
John Foxx,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Star Department,
Fad Gadget,
Sugar Minott,
Fugazi,
Siglo XX,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Accadde A,
Underground Resistance,
Das Ding,
Iggy Pop,
Gichy Dan,
The Modern Lovers,
The Young Rascals,
Bad Manners,
Gabor Szabo,
Duran Duran,
Ultimate Spinach,
the Normal,
Carl Craig,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Section 25,
Blancmange,
Dual Sessions,
The J.B.'s,
Soulsonic Force,
Supertramp,
T. Rex,
Piero Umiliani,
Schoolly D,
Ituana,
The Golliwogs,
The Durutti Column,
Godley & Creme,
Parry Music,
The Angels of Light,
The Divine Comedy,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.