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 Palau and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Manila.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Eurythmics to the punk 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Morten Harket record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mo-Dettes,
Todd Rundgren,
Radiohead,
Tears for Fears,
Rapeman,
Inner City,
Das Ding,
The Searchers,
Donny Hathaway,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Wake,
Pet Shop Boys,
Deepchord,
Lalann,
Prince Buster,
H. Thieme,
Television Personalities,
Delta 5,
The Grass Roots,
New Order,
X-Ray Spex,
The Buckinghams,
Camouflage,
Chrome,
The Raincoats,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Cramps,
Youth Brigade,
The Busters,
Juan Atkins,
Monks,
Matthew Halsall,
Porter Ricks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Divine Comedy,
Talk Talk,
Von Mondo,
Kaleidoscope,
The Dead C,
Fatback Band,
Can,
Janne Schatter,
The Black Dice,
Circle Jerks,
Anakelly,
The Real Kids,
Young Marble Giants,
Cymande,
Matthew Bourne,
Neil Young,
The Moleskins,
Marshall Jefferson,
Suicide,
The Leaves,
Guru Guru,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Popol Vuh,
Aaron Thompson,
KRS-One,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
OOIOO,
DNA,
Marmalade,
Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins.
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.