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 Israel and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 oboe 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 8 Eyed Spy to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Magma. All the underground hits.
All Prince Buster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythm & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eyeless In Gaza record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ice-T,
Big Daddy Kane,
Joensuu 1685,
Sparks,
Panda Bear,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Gang Green,
Cluster,
Loose Ends,
Dennis Brown,
Danielle Patucci,
Andrew Hill,
T. Rex,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jeff Lynne,
Scan 7,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Reuben Wilson,
Janne Schatter,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lou Reed,
Youth Brigade,
Newcleus,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Lalann,
Robert Görl,
Clear Light,
Pantaleimon,
Ludus,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Faust,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Joe Smooth,
Sonny Sharrock,
Interpol,
Harpers Bizarre,
Cecil Taylor,
The Detroit Cobras,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Fortunes,
Skaos,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Fugazi,
Unrelated Segments,
CMW,
Archie Shepp,
Kayak,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
JFA,
48th St. Collective,
Mr. Review,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Outsiders,
Connie Case,
Oblivians,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Fugs,
Brass Construction,
The Wake,
Josef K,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Invisible,
Sun City Girls,
Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid.
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.