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 Nicaragua 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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 clarinet 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Warsaw. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tropical Tobacco record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Althea and Donna record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
Slave,
Derrick Morgan,
The Index,
The Skatalites,
The Beau Brummels,
Chrome,
Guru Guru,
Ultimate Spinach,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Offenders,
The Moleskins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Underground Resistance,
Amon Düül II,
Kas Product,
The Golliwogs,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Depeche Mode,
Chris & Cosey,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Trumans Water,
Infiniti,
Man Parrish,
The Gladiators,
Public Image Ltd.,
Boredoms,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Trojans,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Althea and Donna,
Ornette Coleman,
The Fugs,
Jeff Mills,
Letta Mbulu,
Gil Scott Heron,
Swell Maps,
Wolf Eyes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
B.T. Express,
The Moody Blues,
Barbara Tucker,
Vainqueur,
Bush Tetras,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Neon Judgement,
Scan 7,
The Busters,
Au Pairs,
Josef K,
Peter & Gordon,
Derrick May,
The New Christs,
Theoretical Girls,
Faraquet,
Eli Mardock,
Panda Bear,
John Foxx,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Matthew Halsall,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.