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 Nepal and from Toronto.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Con Funk Shun to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All Pierre Henry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monks,
Altered Images,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Michelle Simonal,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Kerrie Biddell,
June of 44,
The Durutti Column,
Robert Wyatt,
Blossom Toes,
Nik Kershaw,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
T. Rex,
Boogie Down Productions,
Morten Harket,
Blake Baxter,
UT,
Tomorrow,
Jerry's Kids,
Marmalade,
Pulsallama,
Animal Collective,
T.S.O.L.,
One Last Wish,
Jacob Miller,
A Certain Ratio,
The Litter,
Wire,
the Slits,
Eric Copeland,
Ornette Coleman,
Lou Christie,
Isaac Hayes,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Dual Sessions,
The Grass Roots,
Steve Hackett,
The Beau Brummels,
Fat Boys,
Black Moon,
Godley & Creme,
Intrusion,
Don Cherry,
The Smoke,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rufus Thomas,
Visage,
The Stooges,
The Cramps,
Crash Course in Science,
Massinfluence,
Section 25,
Black Bananas,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Popol Vuh,
Groovy Waters,
Leonard Cohen,
Robert Görl,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Angels of Light,
Chrome,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.