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 Tunisia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 harpsichord 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 Liliput to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Fania All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All Sun City Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Steve Hackett record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fatback Band,
Zero Boys,
Chris & Cosey,
Visage,
Derrick May,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Boredoms,
Tom Boy,
Wasted Youth,
Rekid,
Black Moon,
Trumans Water,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Barclay James Harvest,
Von Mondo,
Crispian St. Peters,
Scott Walker,
The Golliwogs,
a-ha,
Youth Brigade,
Agitation Free,
One Last Wish,
Lakeside,
The Cramps,
Dave Gahan,
Second Layer,
Slave,
Scratch Acid,
Ice-T,
June Days,
Index,
Duran Duran,
Kenny Larkin,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Desert Stars,
Los Fastidios,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Nik Kershaw,
The Beau Brummels,
Eve St. Jones,
Ossler,
Jacob Miller,
Joy Division,
The Victims,
Mo-Dettes,
Inner City,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
New Order,
Flash Fearless,
The Raincoats,
Unrelated Segments,
Gastr Del Sol,
Girls At Our Best!,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Vogues,
Nils Olav,
Lungfish,
Ponytail,
The Buckinghams,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.