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 Madagascar and from Houston.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Bremen.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the güiro 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Chris & Cosey. All the underground hits.
All Infiniti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a These Immortal Souls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Curtis Mayfield,
Zero Boys,
Marvin Gaye,
Andrew Hill,
the Germs,
Funkadelic,
Swell Maps,
Todd Terry,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Cheater Slicks,
Sun Ra,
10cc,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Echospace,
X-102,
Tim Buckley,
Vainqueur,
Harmonia,
James White and The Blacks,
Bush Tetras,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Reuben Wilson,
Soul II Soul,
The Saints,
Lalann,
Saccharine Trust,
DJ Sneak,
Ornette Coleman,
The Names,
Icehouse,
Nick Fraelich,
Dennis Brown,
Arab on Radar,
Brothers Johnson,
Subhumans,
Bad Manners,
Goldenarms,
The Mojo Men,
Fluxion,
Boogie Down Productions,
Con Funk Shun,
Mantronix,
The Leaves,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
JFA,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Walker Brothers,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Skarface,
The Blackbyrds,
The Doobie Brothers,
Eden Ahbez,
Aswad,
Hardrive,
Lou Christie,
Pierre Henry,
Crispian St. Peters,
Gang of Four,
KRS-One,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.