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 Cambodia and from Columbus.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Dark Day to the techno 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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All Dawn Penn tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blake Baxter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Royal Trux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kerri Chandler,
Pulsallama,
Hashim,
Quadrant,
The Dave Clark Five,
ABBA,
The Saints,
the Sonics,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ronan,
Kenny Larkin,
Aaron Thompson,
Marvin Gaye,
A Certain Ratio,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ice-T,
The Smoke,
Drive Like Jehu,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bill Near,
Soft Cell,
Rufus Thomas,
Scan 7,
The Kinks,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Crispy Ambulance,
Gabor Szabo,
China Crisis,
Black Flag,
Oneida,
Mantronix,
E-Dancer,
Toni Rubio,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Modern Lovers,
The Zeros,
Circle Jerks,
Arcadia,
Los Fastidios,
Archie Shepp,
PIL,
James White and The Blacks,
The Residents,
Nick Fraelich,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Silicon Teens,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Josef K,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sparks,
Bauhaus,
D'Angelo,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Five Americans,
Junior Murvin,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Alice Coltrane,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft.
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.