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 Germany and from Philadelphia.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Sunsets and Hearts to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Urselle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
the Association,
Dead Boys,
Saccharine Trust,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Subhumans,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Minnie Riperton,
Jerry's Kids,
Trumans Water,
KRS-One,
Oblivians,
Grey Daturas,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Joyce Sims,
Jacob Miller,
Basic Channel,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fear,
Warsaw,
the Sonics,
Quantec,
Magma,
48th St. Collective,
Eurythmics,
Fat Boys,
Unwound,
Das Ding,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Althea and Donna,
Idris Muhammad,
Glambeats Corp.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mo-Dettes,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Happenings,
Little Man,
Pulsallama,
B.T. Express,
The Fugs,
DJ Style,
Public Image Ltd.,
Rod Modell,
Gichy Dan,
The Mummies,
The Pretty Things,
Underground Resistance,
Bobby Byrd,
Glenn Branca,
Bob Dylan,
Arab on Radar,
Marvin Gaye,
Banda Bassotti,
Ken Boothe,
Absolute Body Control,
Soul II Soul,
Monks,
Organ,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Boredoms,
Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic.
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.