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 Senegal and from Accra.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Davy DMX to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Velvet Underground. All the underground hits.
All Siouxsie and the Banshees tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bang on a Can All-Stars 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick May record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
LL Cool J,
Qualms,
The Names,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
PIL,
Delta 5,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Terrestrial Tones,
Wolf Eyes,
In Retrospect,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Pretty Things,
The Vogues,
Das Ding,
Yaz,
Blossom Toes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Monks,
Scan 7,
Aswad,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Pet Shop Boys,
Roy Ayers,
Cheater Slicks,
Harmonia,
The Monochrome Set,
Metal Thangz,
Public Enemy,
Cymande,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Babytalk,
The Velvet Underground,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
F. McDonald,
Jeff Lynne,
Curtis Mayfield,
Easy Going,
Warsaw,
Sällskapet,
John Holt,
Howard Jones,
Stockholm Monsters,
Echospace,
The Black Dice,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ice-T,
The Motions,
Rhythm & Sound,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Buzzcocks,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Searchers,
Susan Cadogan,
Danielle Patucci,
OOIOO,
ABBA,
The Tremeloes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Happenings,
Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma.
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.