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 Costa Rica and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 harpsichord 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 Scion to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Boredoms. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
The Gories,
Oneida,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Erasure,
Jawbox,
Peter and Kerry,
Bizarre Inc.,
Metal Thangz,
E-Dancer,
Jeff Lynne,
Alphaville,
Ultra Naté,
Barry Ungar,
The Stooges,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Scratch Acid,
Fluxion,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Youth Brigade,
Eric Dolphy,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Count Five,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sandy B,
Masters at Work,
Slave,
Gil Scott Heron,
Negative Approach,
Bad Manners,
Ornette Coleman,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Matthew Bourne,
Neil Young,
Zapp,
Lou Christie,
B.T. Express,
The Dirtbombs,
Little Man,
LL Cool J,
Arthur Verocai,
Sällskapet,
Technova,
MC5,
Harry Pussy,
The Invisible,
The Neon Judgement,
Popol Vuh,
Faust,
Chrome,
Delta 5,
Drexciya,
Nik Kershaw,
Sonic Youth,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rufus Thomas,
Pole,
Reuben Wilson,
Pagans,
The Golliwogs,
Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells.
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.