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 Ghana and from Milan.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Easy Going to the punk 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 Funkadelic. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moss Icon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minor Threat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wire,
Roger Hodgson,
Negative Approach,
Supertramp,
La Düsseldorf,
Peter & Gordon,
Ituana,
Glambeats Corp.,
Fear,
Hardrive,
The Raincoats,
Johnny Osbourne,
Gichy Dan,
Ohio Players,
Erasure,
Terrestrial Tones,
Yusef Lateef,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Kinks,
Dorothy Ashby,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Public Enemy,
Flash Fearless,
Michelle Simonal,
Aaron Thompson,
The Count Five,
Morten Harket,
Kas Product,
Y Pants,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Last Poets,
In Retrospect,
ABBA,
Pole,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Television,
Lindisfarne,
Kenny Larkin,
The Mighty Diamonds,
OOIOO,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Junior Murvin,
June of 44,
Pylon,
The Toasters,
Basic Channel,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Dave Gahan,
Adolescents,
Zapp,
The American Breed,
Los Fastidios,
Carl Craig,
Dark Day,
Public Image Ltd.,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Move,
Neil Young,
Sixth Finger,
Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens.
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.