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 Ethiopia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Delhi.
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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 F. McDonald to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Star Department,
The Zeros,
Derrick Morgan,
Dawn Penn,
Skarface,
Tubeway Army,
Letta Mbulu,
Second Layer,
Mad Mike,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The New Christs,
DNA,
Toni Rubio,
Excepter,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Leonard Cohen,
Basic Channel,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Warren Ellis,
X-102,
Peter and Kerry,
Jandek,
Gabor Szabo,
Skaos,
T. Rex,
The Fire Engines,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
LL Cool J,
Matthew Bourne,
Nas,
Cal Tjader,
Inner City,
Fela Kuti,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Detroit Cobras,
Aural Exciters,
Sarah Menescal,
Tears for Fears,
Terrestrial Tones,
Jeff Lynne,
Gregory Isaacs,
Scratch Acid,
Radiohead,
The Neon Judgement,
Ohio Players,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Carl Craig,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jacques Brel,
Avey Tare,
Absolute Body Control,
Kas Product,
Pagans,
Eden Ahbez,
The Wake,
Quantec,
Pole,
Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus.
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.