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 Kuwait and from Accra.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and New York.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Bizarre Inc. to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Joe Finger. All the underground hits.
All Lonnie Liston Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nation of Ulysses record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Foxx,
H. Thieme,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Associates,
Bootsy Collins,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Zapp,
The Sound,
Kool Moe Dee,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
E-Dancer,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Depeche Mode,
Hot Snakes,
Rhythm & Sound,
ABC,
Skarface,
Ice-T,
The Pop Group,
Gabor Szabo,
Rekid,
The Fuzztones,
Susan Cadogan,
The Move,
The Pretty Things,
Cal Tjader,
Chris & Cosey,
Marvin Gaye,
Amon Düül,
Barclay James Harvest,
Malaria!,
Eli Mardock,
Bad Manners,
Shuggie Otis,
Desert Stars,
K-Klass,
Monolake,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Vogues,
Panda Bear,
The Real Kids,
Rufus Thomas,
Brand Nubian,
Moss Icon,
Cecil Taylor,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Main Source,
Echospace,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Eric B and Rakim,
Stetsasonic,
Eric Copeland,
Neu!,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Deakin,
Minnie Riperton,
The Walker Brothers,
Warsaw,
Los Fastidios,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.