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 South Africa and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 chamberlin 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 Organ to the rap 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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
One Last Wish,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kas Product,
June of 44,
Public Image Ltd.,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Harpers Bizarre,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Tears for Fears,
Scientists,
The Stooges,
Idris Muhammad,
D'Angelo,
Minutemen,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Oblivians,
World's Most,
Eve St. Jones,
Malaria!,
Ken Boothe,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Tim Buckley,
Aswad,
Robert Görl,
PIL,
The Names,
Joe Finger,
Amon Düül,
Neil Young,
Bronski Beat,
Eric Copeland,
Wally Richardson,
Patti Smith,
Crime,
Mars,
KRS-One,
Trumans Water,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Duran Duran,
Donald Byrd,
David Bowie,
Sonic Youth,
Jeru the Damaja,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Alphaville,
Young Marble Giants,
The Gap Band,
MC5,
UT,
The Vogues,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Juan Atkins,
Silicon Teens,
Lebanon Hanover,
R.M.O.,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Quadrant,
Gong,
Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana, Nirvana.
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.