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 India and from Houston.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Leonard Cohen to the techno 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 Lungfish. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James Chance & The Contortions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Fania All-Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Icehouse,
The Fugs,
Echospace,
Joy Division,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Jimmy McGriff,
La Düsseldorf,
Yellowson,
The Tremeloes,
Gregory Isaacs,
Fat Boys,
Nas,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Scan 7,
Pere Ubu,
Scrapy,
E-Dancer,
Lalann,
Matthew Halsall,
DJ Sneak,
Thompson Twins,
Procol Harum,
Sound Behaviour,
David Axelrod,
Skaos,
Carl Craig,
Kevin Saunderson,
Man Parrish,
The Offenders,
The Fall,
Babytalk,
Quantec,
Gichy Dan,
Boz Scaggs,
Dead Boys,
Johnny Osbourne,
Sonic Youth,
Mantronix,
Dual Sessions,
Ultra Naté,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Saccharine Trust,
Joe Smooth,
Laurel Aitken,
Fugazi,
Fela Kuti,
Television Personalities,
Niagra,
The Fortunes,
The Evens,
Hoover,
The Gladiators,
Sight & Sound,
Danielle Patucci,
Malaria!,
World's Most,
The Smoke,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gastr Del Sol,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Heaven 17,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.