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 Cameroon and from Edmonton.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Philadelphia.
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 linndrum 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 Soft Cell to the rap 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 Funkadelic. All the underground hits.
All Eli Mardock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Whodini 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marshall Jefferson,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ornette Coleman,
Pagans,
The Blackbyrds,
Deakin,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Godley & Creme,
Cal Tjader,
Agitation Free,
Shoche,
Eric Dolphy,
Funkadelic,
Sixth Finger,
June Days,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Curtis Mayfield,
Qualms,
Boredoms,
Rosa Yemen,
Neu!,
Can,
Mantronix,
Piero Umiliani,
Camberwell Now,
Roxette,
The Skatalites,
Scott Walker,
10cc,
The New Christs,
The Litter,
the Normal,
Letta Mbulu,
The Move,
Animal Collective,
Joe Smooth,
Tres Demented,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
New Order,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Man Parrish,
Electric Prunes,
the Bar-Kays,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Kenny Larkin,
Be Bop Deluxe,
ABC,
Scratch Acid,
Barry Ungar,
Ten City,
Shuggie Otis,
Oblivians,
Scion,
The Moleskins,
Glenn Branca,
The Offenders,
Rekid,
Davy DMX,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
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.