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 Latvia and from Manila.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Can 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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Y Pants 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oblivians record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stockholm Monsters,
Anakelly,
Sandy B,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Real Kids,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
the Swans,
Average White Band,
Anthony Braxton,
Supertramp,
Shuggie Otis,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Moby Grape,
Donny Hathaway,
La Düsseldorf,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Neil Young,
Severed Heads,
Sonic Youth,
Frankie Knuckles,
Chris & Cosey,
kango's stein massive,
Underground Resistance,
Prince Buster,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sun City Girls,
Jeff Lynne,
Mantronix,
Radio Birdman,
The Victims,
Letta Mbulu,
Television,
the Soft Cell,
The Gories,
Rosa Yemen,
Oneida,
Gregory Isaacs,
Fluxion,
Cameo,
Scientists,
Aloha Tigers,
Funky Four + One,
The Invisible,
The Modern Lovers,
Eric Copeland,
The Seeds,
The Dave Clark Five,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Young Rascals,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bauhaus,
The Busters,
D'Angelo,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Cluster,
Tim Buckley,
Lalann,
Lightning Bolt,
Rites of Spring,
Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.