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 Indonesia 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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Nik Kershaw to the electroclash 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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All Tim Buckley tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gian Franco Pienzio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kevin Saunderson,
X-Ray Spex,
Michelle Simonal,
Echospace,
Chris Corsano,
Jeru the Damaja,
Intrusion,
Negative Approach,
Y Pants,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Albert Ayler,
Half Japanese,
KRS-One,
Rakim,
Television Personalities,
Minnie Riperton,
Kool Moe Dee,
Idris Muhammad,
Delon & Dalcan,
Soulsonic Force,
Quando Quango,
Zapp,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Johnny Clarke,
The J.B.'s,
Funkadelic,
The Fugs,
AZ,
Animal Collective,
Drive Like Jehu,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Leaves,
Wally Richardson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
New York Dolls,
Lalann,
Ten City,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Radio Birdman,
Joyce Sims,
Don Cherry,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sonic Youth,
Blake Baxter,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Pet Shop Boys,
cv313,
Moby Grape,
Gichy Dan,
Drexciya,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hashim,
Matthew Halsall,
The Red Krayola,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Average White Band,
Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe.
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.