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 Tuvalu and from Toronto.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Tokyo.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe 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 Jeff Lynne to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All Eric Dolphy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Model 500 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Normal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
Silicon Teens,
Glenn Branca,
The Slackers,
Flash Fearless,
Chrome,
Robert Wyatt,
Rhythm & Sound,
H. Thieme,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sex Pistols,
Unrelated Segments,
Barrington Levy,
Kool Moe Dee,
Negative Approach,
Fat Boys,
Stiv Bators,
Crime,
The Five Americans,
ABC,
Aswad,
Oblivians,
Essential Logic,
Hasil Adkins,
The Remains,
the Germs,
Donny Hathaway,
Rekid,
Andrew Hill,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Selecter,
Swell Maps,
Peter & Gordon,
Hot Snakes,
Nick Fraelich,
Depeche Mode,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Fall,
Avey Tare,
Loose Ends,
Kurtis Blow,
Rapeman,
Sam Rivers,
Yellowson,
The Index,
The Tremeloes,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
R.M.O.,
Alton Ellis,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bluetip,
Alison Limerick,
Average White Band,
Cluster,
Porter Ricks,
Bobby Sherman,
Deakin,
Archie Shepp,
Ultimate Spinach,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.