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 Algeria and from New York.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe 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 The Modern Lovers to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Banda Bassotti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! 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 a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Black Dice record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Real Kids,
Rites of Spring,
The Birthday Party,
Dennis Brown,
Blake Baxter,
Flash Fearless,
Deakin,
Parry Music,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Half Japanese,
Fela Kuti,
Tres Demented,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Laurel Aitken,
Black Bananas,
Scion,
Lakeside,
Mad Mike,
Eurythmics,
Wire,
T.S.O.L.,
Dark Day,
Nils Olav,
Juan Atkins,
Skriet,
This Heat,
Gang Green,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Zapp,
The Pop Group,
Liliput,
MDC,
Lower 48,
David Bowie,
The Golliwogs,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Monochrome Set,
X-101,
Lyres,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lou Christie,
Procol Harum,
Man Parrish,
In Retrospect,
Public Image Ltd.,
Marmalade,
Isaac Hayes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Stetsasonic,
The Happenings,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mark Hollis,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lindisfarne,
the Human League,
Erasure,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Durutti Column,
Fluxion,
Intrusion,
T. Rex, T. Rex, T. Rex, T. Rex.
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.