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 Japan and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 clarinet 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 the Human League to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. All the underground hits.
All Skarface tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television 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 linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
Todd Terry,
Sight & Sound,
The Angels of Light,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Toasters,
Camberwell Now,
Terry Callier,
FM Einheit,
Vainqueur,
Crispy Ambulance,
Mantronix,
Oneida,
Tres Demented,
Black Bananas,
The Searchers,
Ponytail,
Rufus Thomas,
The Black Dice,
Lucky Dragons,
Rod Modell,
Bobby Sherman,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Gap Band,
David Axelrod,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Dark Day,
Section 25,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Con Funk Shun,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Fire Engines,
Flash Fearless,
cv313,
Fat Boys,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Index,
Bobby Womack,
Average White Band,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Move,
Maurizio,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Shoche,
Supertramp,
Second Layer,
Mission of Burma,
Traffic Nightmare,
Schoolly D,
EPMD,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Clear Light,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Anthony Braxton,
Boredoms,
The Alarm Clocks,
Thompson Twins,
Easy Going,
Intrusion,
Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope.
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.