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 Greece and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 rhodes 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 Interpol to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Eyeless In Gaza. All the underground hits.
All Glambeats Corp. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Grandmaster Flash,
Zapp,
Spoonie Gee,
The Star Department,
Animal Collective,
Joensuu 1685,
E-Dancer,
Simply Red,
Nirvana,
Public Image Ltd.,
Public Enemy,
The Sound,
The Knickerbockers,
Derrick May,
Yellowson,
Television Personalities,
Hardrive,
Glenn Branca,
Robert Görl,
Underground Resistance,
Dawn Penn,
Desert Stars,
Ultimate Spinach,
Prince Buster,
Metal Thangz,
David Axelrod,
Hasil Adkins,
Eve St. Jones,
F. McDonald,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Guru Guru,
Susan Cadogan,
Harry Pussy,
Alison Limerick,
Pharoah Sanders,
Yazoo,
Curtis Mayfield,
Amon Düül,
Theoretical Girls,
Pantaleimon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dorothy Ashby,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Blake Baxter,
Matthew Bourne,
Sound Behaviour,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Banda Bassotti,
Flipper,
Lalann,
Lucky Dragons,
The Fuzztones,
Ohio Players,
Scrapy,
K-Klass,
Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day.
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.