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 Maldives and from Delhi.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Edmonton.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Rosa Yemen to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Con Funk Shun record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Patti Smith,
Davy DMX,
The Monks,
EPMD,
Lower 48,
UT,
Eurythmics,
Subhumans,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Nico,
Archie Shepp,
The Golliwogs,
Vladislav Delay,
Tubeway Army,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Five Americans,
Gang Green,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Interpol,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Leonard Cohen,
June Days,
Mr. Review,
Peter and Kerry,
The Busters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lucky Dragons,
Tears for Fears,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Amon Düül,
Outsiders,
The Blackbyrds,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lungfish,
Gastr Del Sol,
Barrington Levy,
David Axelrod,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ultravox,
Joy Division,
Lou Christie,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Donny Hathaway,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Moebius,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Public Enemy,
OOIOO,
Kurtis Blow,
Fad Gadget,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dual Sessions,
Masters at Work,
Parry Music,
Accadde A,
Scrapy,
Barbara Tucker,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Brothers Johnson,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.