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 Argentina and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Spoonie Gee to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Sexual Harrassment tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Surgeon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Man Parrish,
Kaleidoscope,
Drexciya,
Bobby Womack,
LL Cool J,
Sex Pistols,
The Index,
Rites of Spring,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Derrick Morgan,
Ornette Coleman,
Quantec,
The Invisible,
New Order,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ituana,
Gang Starr,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Glenn Branca,
Dual Sessions,
Johnny Clarke,
The Move,
Amon Düül II,
The Doobie Brothers,
Sun Ra,
Nico,
Matthew Halsall,
Roy Ayers,
Pierre Henry,
Metal Thangz,
The Pretty Things,
Monks,
Parry Music,
Yusef Lateef,
Aural Exciters,
Cybotron,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
James White and The Blacks,
Underground Resistance,
UT,
Crooked Eye,
The Monks,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Derrick May,
Flipper,
Hot Snakes,
The Pop Group,
The Last Poets,
Fluxion,
Surgeon,
B.T. Express,
K-Klass,
Black Sheep,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Y Pants,
Mark Hollis,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Peter & Gordon,
Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.
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.