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 Brazil and from Manila.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Kayak to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Matthew Halsall. All the underground hits.
All The Angels of Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonny Sharrock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brothers Johnson,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Scion,
L. Decosne,
the Fania All-Stars,
Terry Callier,
Buzzcocks,
Drexciya,
Lucky Dragons,
The American Breed,
Ralphi Rosario,
Malaria!,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Doobie Brothers,
JFA,
Con Funk Shun,
The Human League,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Victims,
Minnie Riperton,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Spoonie Gee,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Ituana,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sugar Minott,
Alice Coltrane,
The Names,
Tommy Roe,
Ponytail,
OOIOO,
The Beau Brummels,
Hardrive,
Sonic Youth,
Blossom Toes,
Half Japanese,
Mars,
Morten Harket,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pet Shop Boys,
Moebius,
Zapp,
Cluster,
Smog,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Fugs,
Livin' Joy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Roxy Music,
Scientists,
Jesper Dahlback,
Black Pus,
Stetsasonic,
Michelle Simonal,
Procol Harum,
Joyce Sims,
Glenn Branca,
The Happenings,
Lebanon Hanover,
Anakelly,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound.
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.