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 Sweden and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 Halifax and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Pet Shop Boys to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Television. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barry Ungar 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oneida record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barry Ungar,
Cecil Taylor,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Thee Headcoats,
Magma,
Fat Boys,
Unrelated Segments,
the Soft Cell,
Howard Jones,
Joy Division,
Japan,
The Golliwogs,
Marmalade,
The Associates,
the Swans,
Jerry's Kids,
Todd Rundgren,
Leonard Cohen,
Subhumans,
Man Parrish,
Cheater Slicks,
MDC,
Bob Dylan,
Scott Walker,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Misunderstood,
Drexciya,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sam Rivers,
Fad Gadget,
Lindisfarne,
One Last Wish,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sarah Menescal,
Deakin,
Qualms,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Invisible,
Guru Guru,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Eddi Front,
Eurythmics,
Aswad,
Easy Going,
Lalo Schifrin,
Curtis Mayfield,
Rites of Spring,
Thompson Twins,
Franke,
Mantronix,
Jacques Brel,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
JFA,
Rakim,
T.S.O.L.,
Cameo,
Model 500,
The Happenings,
Bronski Beat,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.