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 Kosovo and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Graham Central Station to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All Lou Christie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eli Mardock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a H. Thieme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
Loose Ends,
Rosa Yemen,
The Victims,
Funky Four + One,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Shoche,
Pere Ubu,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Schoolly D,
Underground Resistance,
David McCallum,
Warren Ellis,
10cc,
The Fire Engines,
Scion,
Stockholm Monsters,
Khruangbin,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Scrapy,
Von Mondo,
The Divine Comedy,
Chrome,
Donny Hathaway,
Soul II Soul,
The Happenings,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Real Kids,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Massinfluence,
The Sonics,
Echospace,
Eli Mardock,
Fluxion,
the Association,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Crispian St. Peters,
Electric Prunes,
The Cure,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Red Krayola,
Mr. Review,
Pylon,
Cheater Slicks,
David Bowie,
Scott Walker,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Zeros,
Neu!,
This Heat,
The Smoke,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Fuzztones,
Michelle Simonal,
Nas,
Scientists,
The Wake,
Anakelly,
Swell Maps,
Terrestrial Tones,
Flipper,
Subhumans,
Junior Murvin,
Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5.
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.