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 Taiwan and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Quantec to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Howard Jones. All the underground hits.
All Accadde A tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Accadde A record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
The Motions,
Arab on Radar,
Gang Starr,
Rites of Spring,
Grey Daturas,
Eve St. Jones,
Bobby Sherman,
the Slits,
The Gories,
Pierre Henry,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ultravox,
Tres Demented,
Shoche,
Derrick Morgan,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
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Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Names,
The Red Krayola,
Cymande,
Rakim,
MC5,
Groovy Waters,
Visage,
B.T. Express,
Graham Central Station,
OOIOO,
Curtis Mayfield,
Crooked Eye,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Electric Prunes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ronnie Foster,
Max Romeo,
Grandmaster Flash,
Tim Buckley,
H. Thieme,
Basic Channel,
Lucky Dragons,
CMW,
Bush Tetras,
Kas Product,
Steve Hackett,
Icehouse,
Leonard Cohen,
Radio Birdman,
Radiopuhelimet,
Easy Going,
X-Ray Spex,
The Black Dice,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Moody Blues,
Donald Byrd,
The Birthday Party,
Jeff Lynne,
Man Parrish,
Bad Manners,
Sun Ra,
Soul II Soul,
Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee.
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.