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 Palau and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 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 Sandy B to the rap 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 Funkadelic. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Index record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
The Mojo Men,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Aaron Thompson,
MC5,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Stooges,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DJ Sneak,
Scion,
Tropical Tobacco,
Mars,
Easy Going,
the Swans,
Tim Buckley,
The Selecter,
Big Daddy Kane,
Black Pus,
Janne Schatter,
Harpers Bizarre,
Smog,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Lalann,
Grauzone,
X-Ray Spex,
Ohio Players,
Nirvana,
Ultra Naté,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Basic Channel,
Alison Limerick,
The Knickerbockers,
Marshall Jefferson,
Soul II Soul,
The Searchers,
Electric Prunes,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Aloha Tigers,
The Slackers,
Chris & Cosey,
Radiohead,
Oblivians,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Interpol,
Eli Mardock,
Wings,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Prince Buster,
Nas,
Faraquet,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Cramps,
Blancmange,
The Velvet Underground,
Das Ding,
Icehouse,
The Gap Band,
Zapp,
The Remains,
John Cale,
Faust,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.