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 Vietnam and from Lagos.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Rotary Connection to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Robert Hood. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young & Crazy Horse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Kinks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Whodini,
Unwound,
The Knickerbockers,
Rosa Yemen,
Derrick Morgan,
Simply Red,
The Beau Brummels,
Pylon,
Sun City Girls,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Clear Light,
Connie Case,
The Sound,
Heaven 17,
Black Moon,
Zapp,
Sällskapet,
The Smiths,
Porter Ricks,
Groovy Waters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Inner City,
Motorama,
Roxette,
Godley & Creme,
Niagra,
Morten Harket,
The American Breed,
John Coltrane,
Juan Atkins,
Visage,
Television,
Scott Walker,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scientists,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Bronski Beat,
Kayak,
Thee Headcoats,
Monolake,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Crime,
Deakin,
Khruangbin,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Joe Finger,
Easy Going,
New York Dolls,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Harry Pussy,
Gang Starr,
K-Klass,
The Kinks,
Rekid,
Flamin' Groovies,
Alison Limerick,
World's Most,
Severed Heads,
John Lydon,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.