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 Jamaica and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Derrick May to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deakin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantytec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Metal Thangz,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Pet Shop Boys,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Anthony Braxton,
Tomorrow,
Inner City,
Susan Cadogan,
Yaz,
Lightning Bolt,
Icehouse,
Robert Hood,
Fear,
Ludus,
Public Enemy,
8 Eyed Spy,
Bang On A Can,
Blancmange,
Slave,
Todd Rundgren,
Fluxion,
Marine Girls,
Technova,
The Mojo Men,
Nik Kershaw,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Severed Heads,
Crooked Eye,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
CMW,
Neu!,
Banda Bassotti,
The Blackbyrds,
Davy DMX,
Oblivians,
Colin Newman,
Aaron Thompson,
The Remains,
Sixth Finger,
Scientists,
Con Funk Shun,
Anakelly,
The Smoke,
Kurtis Blow,
The Gladiators,
Blake Baxter,
Sarah Menescal,
The Misunderstood,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
David McCallum,
The Barracudas,
The Residents,
Little Man,
ABC,
EPMD,
E-Dancer,
The Grass Roots,
H. Thieme,
Crime,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pantaleimon,
Swans,
Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson.
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.