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 Belgium and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Guru Guru to the electroclash 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 Surgeon. All the underground hits.
All David Bowie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every kango's stein massive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
Avey Tare,
Gang Green,
Radio Birdman,
Robert Wyatt,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Q and Not U,
Moby Grape,
Yusef Lateef,
Can,
Rekid,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Roger Hodgson,
Television Personalities,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lee Hazlewood,
Jimmy McGriff,
Groovy Waters,
Pharoah Sanders,
Deepchord,
Janne Schatter,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Excepter,
Y Pants,
Stereo Dub,
Main Source,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Cameo,
The Smiths,
T. Rex,
The Zeros,
Prince Buster,
Brass Construction,
Basic Channel,
The American Breed,
Animal Collective,
In Retrospect,
Godley & Creme,
Rapeman,
Infiniti,
Kerrie Biddell,
The New Christs,
The Gun Club,
Ohio Players,
Bobby Womack,
Radiopuhelimet,
Rod Modell,
Pierre Henry,
Erykah Badu,
Flash Fearless,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Charles Mingus,
Brick,
Fear,
Ponytail,
Skriet,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Blackbyrds,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.