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 Namibia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Alison Limerick to the electroclash 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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All Oppenheimer Analysis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joyce Sims,
James White and The Blacks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Amon Düül II,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Amazonics,
The Saints,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bang On A Can,
La Düsseldorf,
The Five Americans,
The Invisible,
Ten City,
Silicon Teens,
Dawn Penn,
Patti Smith,
Jeff Lynne,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The J.B.'s,
Deadbeat,
Bob Dylan,
The Monks,
Aural Exciters,
The Neon Judgement,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Selecter,
Soulsonic Force,
Harmonia,
Frankie Knuckles,
Todd Rundgren,
The Sound,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Gories,
Slave,
The Martian,
The Residents,
The Buckinghams,
June Days,
The Velvet Underground,
Ohio Players,
The Doobie Brothers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Smiths,
The Stooges,
The Dead C,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gang Green,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Angels of Light,
Severed Heads,
Depeche Mode,
The Durutti Column,
The Detroit Cobras,
Inner City,
Underground Resistance,
Pantytec,
Andrew Hill,
The Cure,
Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo.
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.