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 Togo and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Chrome to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 K-Klass. All the underground hits.
All Spoonie Gee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dirtbombs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
Toni Rubio,
Thompson Twins,
Pet Shop Boys,
Unwound,
Scott Walker,
Gichy Dan,
Nico,
The American Breed,
Echospace,
Masters at Work,
Visage,
The Wake,
kango's stein massive,
Monolake,
Icehouse,
Sparks,
Q and Not U,
cv313,
Lalo Schifrin,
10cc,
Thee Headcoats,
The Leaves,
Talk Talk,
the Slits,
The J.B.'s,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Dawn Penn,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bad Manners,
Eurythmics,
The Cramps,
The Gories,
Michelle Simonal,
The Human League,
The Knickerbockers,
The Detroit Cobras,
Wings,
Angry Samoans,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
DJ Sneak,
Magazine,
Stereo Dub,
Janne Schatter,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sister Nancy,
X-102,
Derrick Morgan,
Babytalk,
June Days,
Magma,
Tears for Fears,
Whodini,
FM Einheit,
Girls At Our Best!,
Urselle,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Supertramp,
Jacob Miller,
Country Joe & The Fish,
ABC,
Mad Mike,
Barclay James Harvest,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.
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.