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 Moldova and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Lou Reed 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 The Sonics to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All The Black Dice tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang Green record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Gap Band,
James White and The Blacks,
Bootsy Collins,
Ludus,
Man Parrish,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Derrick May,
Stockholm Monsters,
Joensuu 1685,
The Mummies,
Aaron Thompson,
Arthur Verocai,
The Sisters of Mercy,
the Sonics,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Loose Ends,
China Crisis,
Eden Ahbez,
Unrelated Segments,
Intrusion,
Nils Olav,
Lebanon Hanover,
New Age Steppers,
Tears for Fears,
Radiopuhelimet,
Tim Buckley,
Vladislav Delay,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Massinfluence,
Rekid,
Nico,
Crooked Eye,
the Normal,
Roxy Music,
Big Daddy Kane,
Gabor Szabo,
Soft Machine,
Brick,
Thompson Twins,
Niagra,
The Kinks,
Vainqueur,
Terrestrial Tones,
DJ Style,
8 Eyed Spy,
Bizarre Inc.,
Eddi Front,
Darondo,
Metal Thangz,
Blossom Toes,
The Count Five,
Jerry's Kids,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Pierre Henry,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Procol Harum,
Aloha Tigers,
Connie Case,
Toni Rubio,
The Cowsills,
Minnie Riperton,
The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels.
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.