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 Eritrea and from Tokyo.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
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 Thompson Twins to the grime 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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Duran Duran tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Suburban Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
Loose Ends,
Soulsonic Force,
Surgeon,
Ohio Players,
Junior Murvin,
Unrelated Segments,
Deadbeat,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Donald Byrd,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bob Dylan,
Flash Fearless,
The Smiths,
The Monks,
The Invisible,
Mantronix,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Todd Rundgren,
Neu!,
Joey Negro,
Parry Music,
Eric B and Rakim,
Drexciya,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
U.S. Maple,
The Dave Clark Five,
Technova,
Minutemen,
The Buckinghams,
Main Source,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bizarre Inc.,
Danielle Patucci,
Skriet,
Lyres,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Average White Band,
Excepter,
Adolescents,
KRS-One,
The Techniques,
Sound Behaviour,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Lou Christie,
Wings,
Moss Icon,
the Human League,
Marmalade,
Spoonie Gee,
The Star Department,
Bootsy Collins,
Audionom,
Gabor Szabo,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sun Ra,
The Young Rascals,
Fad Gadget,
Sällskapet,
John Cale, John Cale, John Cale, John Cale.
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.