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 Kiribati and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Associates to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Das Ding 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kaleidoscope,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ludus,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cal Tjader,
Magma,
Todd Rundgren,
Warren Ellis,
Chrome,
Amon Düül,
Gang of Four,
In Retrospect,
Schoolly D,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Sonics,
Johnny Clarke,
The Walker Brothers,
F. McDonald,
Mission of Burma,
K-Klass,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Tommy Roe,
The Human League,
Jimmy McGriff,
Gregory Isaacs,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Todd Terry,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
the Soft Cell,
Archie Shepp,
The Real Kids,
Fatback Band,
Sam Rivers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Janne Schatter,
The Residents,
Jawbox,
L. Decosne,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Toni Rubio,
Infiniti,
Gerry Rafferty,
La Düsseldorf,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Pole,
Yazoo,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ornette Coleman,
The Saints,
Leonard Cohen,
The Wake,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Sun City Girls,
Deepchord,
New Order,
Derrick Morgan,
Stetsasonic,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Pretty Things,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.