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 Georgia and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 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 Janne Schatter to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Johnny Osbourne. All the underground hits.
All Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The United States of America record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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?
Basic Channel,
The Vogues,
Donald Byrd,
Patti Smith,
The Mummies,
Derrick May,
Barrington Levy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
DNA,
Cameo,
Black Flag,
Jawbox,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lungfish,
U.S. Maple,
Crispy Ambulance,
John Cale,
Gerry Rafferty,
Leonard Cohen,
Freddie Wadling,
Vladislav Delay,
Au Pairs,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Yaz,
Darondo,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Arcadia,
Stetsasonic,
The Slits,
Flipper,
Metal Thangz,
Infiniti,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Alice Coltrane,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Chris Corsano,
Rotary Connection,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Roxette,
Toni Rubio,
The Knickerbockers,
The Fugs,
Aloha Tigers,
Khruangbin,
David McCallum,
Aaron Thompson,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Archie Shepp,
Brand Nubian,
The Electric Prunes,
The New Christs,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Circle Jerks,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Seeds,
PIL,
Newcleus,
Lalann,
The Blackbyrds,
Organ,
Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster.
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.