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 Benin and from Lille.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Audionom to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Todd Rundgren tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joyce Sims record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funky Four + One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Busters,
Sällskapet,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Skaos,
Jeff Lynne,
Mo-Dettes,
Moss Icon,
Agent Orange,
Average White Band,
Hasil Adkins,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Quando Quango,
Echospace,
Sun City Girls,
Rod Modell,
The Fuzztones,
The Dirtbombs,
Lindisfarne,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Mary Jane Girls,
Al Stewart,
Little Man,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Hoover,
Spoonie Gee,
Eurythmics,
Severed Heads,
Smog,
Ice-T,
Massinfluence,
Underground Resistance,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Leaves,
Tim Buckley,
Nico,
Mandrill,
cv313,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Quadrant,
Morten Harket,
Toni Rubio,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Grey Daturas,
Ohio Players,
Amon Düül II,
Negative Approach,
Dual Sessions,
The Victims,
Wolf Eyes,
The Associates,
Radiohead,
X-Ray Spex,
Idris Muhammad,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Amazonics,
Gang Starr,
Procol Harum,
Jacob Miller,
Absolute Body Control,
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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.