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 Azerbaijan and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Iggy Pop to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse. All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
Wire,
The Count Five,
Eden Ahbez,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Seeds,
Television Personalities,
Television,
Girls At Our Best!,
Neu!,
La Düsseldorf,
Public Image Ltd.,
Wally Richardson,
The United States of America,
Sixth Finger,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Busters,
DNA,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Arthur Verocai,
EPMD,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pere Ubu,
Pylon,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Smiths,
AZ,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gil Scott Heron,
Hasil Adkins,
The Vogues,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Dead C,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Martian,
Charles Mingus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Remains,
Alison Limerick,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Easy Going,
Yellowson,
Maurizio,
Mo-Dettes,
Howard Jones,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Radiopuhelimet,
Crime,
The Black Dice,
The Beau Brummels,
Traffic Nightmare,
Deadbeat,
Loose Ends,
Slick Rick,
X-101,
Jawbox,
Liliput,
The Buckinghams,
8 Eyed Spy,
Unrelated Segments,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.