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 Lebanon and from Madrid.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Gun Club to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Scratch Acid. All the underground hits.
All Television tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Duran Duran record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alphaville,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Iggy Pop,
Ralphi Rosario,
Gabor Szabo,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Electric Prunes,
The Divine Comedy,
Shoche,
Liliput,
Hasil Adkins,
Spoonie Gee,
U.S. Maple,
The Skatalites,
Bootsy Collins,
Oblivians,
Joe Finger,
The Walker Brothers,
Angry Samoans,
Eurythmics,
Japan,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jerry's Kids,
Freddie Wadling,
Roxette,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pulsallama,
Soft Cell,
Inner City,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Glambeats Corp.,
H. Thieme,
Sonny Sharrock,
Moss Icon,
Guru Guru,
Lindisfarne,
Grandmaster Flash,
Index,
The Beau Brummels,
Faraquet,
Letta Mbulu,
Heaven 17,
Dennis Brown,
The Associates,
Animal Collective,
The Move,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Chris Corsano,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Rufus Thomas,
Accadde A,
UT,
Pet Shop Boys,
Fat Boys,
Outsiders,
Glenn Branca,
The Neon Judgement,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Lyres,
Alison Limerick,
Peter and Kerry,
The United States of America,
Mark Hollis,
John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane.
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.