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 Belgium and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lyon.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Echo & the Bunnymen to the jazz 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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tommy Roe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kurtis Blow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Desert Stars,
Mars,
Outsiders,
H. Thieme,
Nik Kershaw,
Public Image Ltd.,
the Slits,
The Evens,
The Monochrome Set,
Donny Hathaway,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tres Demented,
Easy Going,
Bauhaus,
Godley & Creme,
Al Stewart,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Searchers,
Whodini,
The Seeds,
The Black Dice,
Donald Byrd,
Sonic Youth,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eric Copeland,
Darondo,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Chris Corsano,
The Sonics,
Eden Ahbez,
Lou Christie,
The Golliwogs,
Bizarre Inc.,
Radio Birdman,
Scrapy,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Gang Starr,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cluster,
Aaron Thompson,
Suburban Knight,
Alton Ellis,
Subhumans,
Q65,
Dave Gahan,
The Wake,
Iggy Pop,
Carl Craig,
The Saints,
Con Funk Shun,
Accadde A,
Gichy Dan,
Soft Cell,
The Pop Group,
Stockholm Monsters,
Das Ding,
Marcia Griffiths,
Pylon,
Ronan, Ronan, Ronan, Ronan.
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.