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 Guinea and from Cairo.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the marimba 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 Quadrant to the grunge 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 Moebius. All the underground hits.
All Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-Ray Spex 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 an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mo-Dettes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
The Offenders,
Spoonie Gee,
The United States of America,
ABBA,
Sandy B,
Barbara Tucker,
Mantronix,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Technova,
Inner City,
Amon Düül II,
The Monochrome Set,
Rosa Yemen,
Minor Threat,
In Retrospect,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bobby Sherman,
The Motions,
Janne Schatter,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Minny Pops,
Mad Mike,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Yazoo,
Crooked Eye,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Nico,
The Leaves,
Matthew Halsall,
FM Einheit,
The Birthday Party,
Skaos,
Donny Hathaway,
Andrew Hill,
Lightning Bolt,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Pulsallama,
Faust,
Wire,
The Red Krayola,
the Swans,
The Moody Blues,
Avey Tare,
Warren Ellis,
Flipper,
DNA,
Lungfish,
The Happenings,
Mr. Review,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sex Pistols,
a-ha,
The Zeros,
Lindisfarne,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
the Association,
Nirvana,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat.
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.