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 Peru and from Glasgow.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All Sunsets and Hearts tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Detroit Cobras record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Throbbing Gristle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fela Kuti,
Mary Jane Girls,
Clear Light,
Bobby Byrd,
The Blackbyrds,
the Bar-Kays,
Archie Shepp,
World's Most,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
John Foxx,
Sun Ra,
Excepter,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Funkadelic,
Zero Boys,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Amon Düül II,
Sonic Youth,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Cramps,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Mo-Dettes,
The Raincoats,
Mark Hollis,
Reagan Youth,
Barrington Levy,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Animal Collective,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Pantytec,
Television,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Slave,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Monks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
ABBA,
The Names,
Section 25,
Heaven 17,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lakeside,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Rites of Spring,
Dawn Penn,
Arcadia,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Move,
F. McDonald,
The Martian,
Bronski Beat,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Intrusion,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Electric Prunes,
Amazonics,
Todd Rundgren,
Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs.
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.