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 Tunisia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 rhodes 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 Aural Exciters to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy Collins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heavy D & The Boyz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Subhumans,
Unrelated Segments,
Quantec,
Television Personalities,
The Vogues,
Minutemen,
Hardrive,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Visage,
Y Pants,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Mo-Dettes,
Josef K,
Public Enemy,
The Moody Blues,
Alton Ellis,
The Cowsills,
Minor Threat,
Metal Thangz,
Cameo,
Magma,
Gang of Four,
Michelle Simonal,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Offenders,
The Standells,
Loose Ends,
Thompson Twins,
The Mojo Men,
Flamin' Groovies,
Suicide,
the Swans,
Monolake,
Neu!,
Soul II Soul,
Duran Duran,
EPMD,
Au Pairs,
AZ,
Soulsonic Force,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lee Hazlewood,
Todd Rundgren,
The Associates,
Barbara Tucker,
Altered Images,
U.S. Maple,
Sonic Youth,
Panda Bear,
The Buckinghams,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
This Heat,
Laurel Aitken,
Cymande,
Robert Görl,
Smog,
The Names,
Sam Rivers,
Yaz,
Tropical Tobacco,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.