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 Iran and from Manchester.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lonnie Liston Smith. All the underground hits.
All Ronnie Foster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sound,
Marc Almond,
Ronnie Foster,
Sam Rivers,
Danielle Patucci,
Andrew Hill,
Delon & Dalcan,
Skarface,
Bobby Byrd,
Susan Cadogan,
The Vogues,
The Grass Roots,
Yazoo,
Roxette,
Lucky Dragons,
The Saints,
B.T. Express,
ABC,
Banda Bassotti,
Subhumans,
E-Dancer,
Marcia Griffiths,
Television Personalities,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Yaz,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Alice Coltrane,
Moss Icon,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Agent Orange,
The Zeros,
Yellowson,
Mad Mike,
Brothers Johnson,
Bauhaus,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pere Ubu,
Marshall Jefferson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Offenders,
The Names,
Todd Terry,
The Victims,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Minny Pops,
PIL,
Joe Smooth,
The Count Five,
The Beau Brummels,
Blossom Toes,
DJ Style,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Gap Band,
The Cure,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.