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 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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Danielle Patucci to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All the Germs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Camberwell Now,
The Neon Judgement,
Kayak,
Max Romeo,
Erykah Badu,
David Axelrod,
The Raincoats,
Dual Sessions,
Boredoms,
The Kinks,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
the Swans,
Agent Orange,
Mars,
Black Sheep,
Groovy Waters,
Fatback Band,
Ronan,
Con Funk Shun,
The Offenders,
James White and The Blacks,
Ossler,
Nik Kershaw,
Lou Reed,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Eric Copeland,
Gerry Rafferty,
Cymande,
Cabaret Voltaire,
D'Angelo,
Monks,
Amon Düül,
Pulsallama,
Symarip,
Cybotron,
Black Bananas,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Blossom Toes,
The Alarm Clocks,
Talk Talk,
Brand Nubian,
Outsiders,
Graham Central Station,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Vladislav Delay,
T. Rex,
Toni Rubio,
Roxy Music,
The Gories,
Ten City,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Scrapy,
Gastr Del Sol,
Masters at Work,
the Sonics,
Boz Scaggs,
Lakeside,
The Leaves,
Flipper,
Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players.
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.