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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Judy Mowatt to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All Sexual Harrassment tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bauhaus 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thee Headcoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
DJ Style,
Morten Harket,
Camouflage,
Japan,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Moss Icon,
Mad Mike,
Scott Walker,
Sällskapet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Agitation Free,
The Litter,
the Swans,
The Music Machine,
Talk Talk,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
K-Klass,
Mars,
Ornette Coleman,
Avey Tare,
Mantronix,
Ossler,
The Standells,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Hot Snakes,
Easy Going,
Fear,
Malaria!,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Dirtbombs,
Bang On A Can,
Franke,
Leonard Cohen,
CMW,
The Pop Group,
Gil Scott Heron,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Freddie Wadling,
Scratch Acid,
David Axelrod,
Agent Orange,
Tom Boy,
Swans,
Sex Pistols,
Radio Birdman,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Slackers,
The Divine Comedy,
Max Romeo,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marine Girls,
Gong,
Boz Scaggs,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Buckinghams,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Grey Daturas,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs.
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.