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 Ghana and from Tokyo.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Bob Dylan to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 DJ Style. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
Joy Division,
Livin' Joy,
The Slackers,
Derrick Morgan,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Roxy Music,
Fat Boys,
Skriet,
Eric Dolphy,
Fatback Band,
John Foxx,
Clear Light,
Excepter,
Average White Band,
Sex Pistols,
Gastr Del Sol,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lee Hazlewood,
Nas,
Rod Modell,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Kinks,
Subhumans,
Goldenarms,
the Slits,
Funky Four + One,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Stetsasonic,
John Lydon,
Vladislav Delay,
Echospace,
Pantaleimon,
Crooked Eye,
Gichy Dan,
The Red Krayola,
Crime,
The Leaves,
The Golliwogs,
Barclay James Harvest,
Roger Hodgson,
Harpers Bizarre,
Bizarre Inc.,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Quantec,
Grandmaster Flash,
Depeche Mode,
Lungfish,
Youth Brigade,
Intrusion,
Joe Finger,
Stereo Dub,
Agent Orange,
Fear,
The Saints,
June Days,
The Five Americans,
Camouflage,
A Certain Ratio,
Harry Pussy,
Adolescents,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.