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 Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 guitar 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band to the crunk 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 Lindisfarne. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Harmonia,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Junior Murvin,
Zero Boys,
Kas Product,
Lakeside,
FM Einheit,
The New Christs,
Stereo Dub,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Jacob Miller,
Faraquet,
James White and The Blacks,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Soul II Soul,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Hot Snakes,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bad Manners,
Con Funk Shun,
Swans,
Brass Construction,
the Sonics,
Lalo Schifrin,
Pole,
Q65,
Al Stewart,
Aaron Thompson,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Slave,
Lalann,
Robert Görl,
David Axelrod,
Yellowson,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Music Machine,
Jawbox,
Connie Case,
Groovy Waters,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Delta 5,
CMW,
Pussy Galore,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ronan,
Todd Rundgren,
Freddie Wadling,
the Human League,
Stiv Bators,
Surgeon,
Niagra,
Yaz,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Black Dice,
Public Image Ltd.,
Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work.
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.