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 Dominican Republic and from Stockholm.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Winnipeg.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Eric Dolphy to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 A Flock of Seagulls. All the underground hits.
All The Star Department tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vaughan Mason & Crew record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
Kerrie Biddell,
China Crisis,
James Chance & The Contortions,
U.S. Maple,
The Busters,
Section 25,
Stetsasonic,
The Dirtbombs,
Bush Tetras,
the Normal,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Smoke,
Erasure,
Bootsy Collins,
The Dave Clark Five,
PIL,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Kinks,
Soft Machine,
Eddi Front,
Barclay James Harvest,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Count Five,
Chris & Cosey,
Mantronix,
Reagan Youth,
David McCallum,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bill Wells,
Sonic Youth,
Babytalk,
Newcleus,
Mad Mike,
The Doors,
Minutemen,
Ludus,
The Happenings,
Roxy Music,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Iggy Pop,
Marmalade,
Cluster,
Masters at Work,
Groovy Waters,
Minnie Riperton,
Graham Central Station,
Arab on Radar,
Tomorrow,
Anakelly,
Panda Bear,
Black Pus,
Fat Boys,
UT,
The Slits,
Underground Resistance,
The Fortunes,
Boz Scaggs,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Tropical Tobacco, Tropical Tobacco, Tropical Tobacco, Tropical Tobacco.
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.