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 Ireland and from Winnipeg.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lille.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the snare 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 Pet Shop Boys to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 PIL. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Franke 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
Malaria!,
LL Cool J,
Sister Nancy,
Crispian St. Peters,
La Düsseldorf,
ABBA,
Marc Almond,
Niagra,
These Immortal Souls,
Dennis Brown,
Gabor Szabo,
Infiniti,
The Selecter,
Judy Mowatt,
Funky Four + One,
Rakim,
Jawbox,
Joe Smooth,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Intrusion,
Joy Division,
Sonic Youth,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Smoke,
The Standells,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sam Rivers,
Swans,
The Cramps,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Dave Clark Five,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ossler,
Kerri Chandler,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Neon Judgement,
Public Enemy,
Nik Kershaw,
June of 44,
Accadde A,
The Grass Roots,
EPMD,
Pierre Henry,
Circle Jerks,
Bootsy Collins,
K-Klass,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Blossom Toes,
the Normal,
Depeche Mode,
FM Einheit,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Busters,
The Music Machine,
Tommy Roe,
Au Pairs,
Nico,
Marshall Jefferson,
Mars,
The Victims,
The Index,
Chrome,
Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar.
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.