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 Kuwait and from Lille.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Interpol to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cymande,
H. Thieme,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The United States of America,
Roy Ayers,
Suburban Knight,
Bauhaus,
Magma,
Piero Umiliani,
Gregory Isaacs,
Yellowson,
Qualms,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Max Romeo,
Technova,
Grey Daturas,
Public Image Ltd.,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Patti Smith,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Mummies,
Lindisfarne,
Sandy B,
Spoonie Gee,
Dual Sessions,
Dawn Penn,
The Divine Comedy,
Ultimate Spinach,
Alison Limerick,
Make Up,
Scrapy,
The Grass Roots,
Whodini,
Faust,
Ten City,
Ituana,
Duran Duran,
The Knickerbockers,
The Seeds,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Royal Trux,
Blake Baxter,
Connie Case,
The Dave Clark Five,
Arcadia,
Fat Boys,
Symarip,
Yazoo,
The Smiths,
Excepter,
John Foxx,
KRS-One,
Ossler,
Depeche Mode,
The Dead C,
Fatback Band,
Electric Prunes,
Aloha Tigers,
China Crisis,
Black Flag,
Jacob Miller,
Infiniti,
Bizarre Inc.,
Dead Boys, Dead Boys, Dead Boys, Dead Boys.
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.