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 Congo and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Icehouse to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Max Romeo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dark Day 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronan,
Sight & Sound,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Isaac Hayes,
Ralphi Rosario,
Deepchord,
The Walker Brothers,
Mandrill,
Darondo,
Loose Ends,
Funky Four + One,
World's Most,
Franke,
Tears for Fears,
Anthony Braxton,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Porter Ricks,
Qualms,
Ludus,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Liliput,
PIL,
Rapeman,
T. Rex,
Idris Muhammad,
Q and Not U,
Cheater Slicks,
The Five Americans,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Harmonia,
Connie Case,
Erasure,
Cecil Taylor,
Leonard Cohen,
Gichy Dan,
Wire,
Echospace,
Bill Near,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Anakelly,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Smiths,
Jacob Miller,
Circle Jerks,
David Axelrod,
Flash Fearless,
The Moleskins,
Sonny Sharrock,
Dead Boys,
Pantytec,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Radio Birdman,
Marmalade,
Minutemen,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Spoonie Gee,
Kas Product,
Subhumans,
Jeru the Damaja,
EPMD,
Maleditus Sound,
Yellowson,
Matthew Bourne,
Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra.
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.