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 Kuwait and from Copenhagen.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Nik Kershaw 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 Yellowson. All the underground hits.
All Justin Hinds & The Dominoes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terror Squad Feat. Camron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Barclay James Harvest,
John Foxx,
Pole,
Lightning Bolt,
Subhumans,
Severed Heads,
Basic Channel,
Banda Bassotti,
Hasil Adkins,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Mad Mike,
The Real Kids,
Ronan,
Bob Dylan,
Aloha Tigers,
David McCallum,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Y Pants,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sight & Sound,
The Dirtbombs,
Model 500,
Soulsonic Force,
Fad Gadget,
Eric Dolphy,
the Slits,
Sällskapet,
Danielle Patucci,
Tropical Tobacco,
Yazoo,
Shoche,
Panda Bear,
The Gories,
Agent Orange,
Rufus Thomas,
JFA,
Darondo,
Bobby Sherman,
A Certain Ratio,
Monolake,
Essential Logic,
the Swans,
Second Layer,
AZ,
New Age Steppers,
Silicon Teens,
Crispian St. Peters,
Rakim,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Martian,
Soul Sonic Force,
Marcia Griffiths,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Pylon,
Deepchord,
Livin' Joy,
The Cure,
Gang Green,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Pierre Henry,
The Red Krayola,
Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock.
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.