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 South Sudan 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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 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 Sixth Finger to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Warsaw. All the underground hits.
All Man Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Surgeon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Judy Mowatt,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Chris & Cosey,
The Barracudas,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Grey Daturas,
Minor Threat,
Yaz,
Siglo XX,
Joe Finger,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Angry Samoans,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Peter & Gordon,
Audionom,
FM Einheit,
Marine Girls,
The Fugs,
Brick,
Nick Fraelich,
Lalann,
Reagan Youth,
The Pop Group,
Eden Ahbez,
Mars,
Gang of Four,
Mission of Burma,
These Immortal Souls,
Derrick Morgan,
AZ,
Jeff Lynne,
Quantec,
The Neon Judgement,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Martian,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Fat Boys,
Silicon Teens,
Section 25,
Funky Four + One,
Parry Music,
CMW,
Pole,
Qualms,
Rites of Spring,
Fluxion,
Patti Smith,
Bang On A Can,
Letta Mbulu,
Kurtis Blow,
Robert Wyatt,
Mr. Review,
Leonard Cohen,
The Raincoats,
New York Dolls,
Deepchord,
Sound Behaviour,
L. Decosne,
Saccharine Trust,
T.S.O.L.,
La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf.
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.