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 Johannesburg.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Neu! to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All Sly & The Family Stone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eyeless In Gaza record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Das Ding,
The Monochrome Set,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sugar Minott,
Wire,
Aural Exciters,
Max Romeo,
Accadde A,
Sonic Youth,
Can,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sandy B,
Lungfish,
Mars,
FM Einheit,
Don Cherry,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Residents,
Nils Olav,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gichy Dan,
Pere Ubu,
The Real Kids,
The Pretty Things,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Heaven 17,
Susan Cadogan,
Brick,
The Moody Blues,
Boredoms,
Frankie Knuckles,
Scion,
Television,
Curtis Mayfield,
Soulsonic Force,
Half Japanese,
Dual Sessions,
Monolake,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Stereo Dub,
Ludus,
Funky Four + One,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lalann,
James White and The Blacks,
Suicide,
The Remains,
New Order,
the Human League,
The Gun Club,
Cymande,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Monks,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Jeff Mills,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.