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 Libya and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 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 Aural Exciters to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Strawberry Alarm Clock. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heavy D & The Boyz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Idris Muhammad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Joy Division,
Jacques Brel,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Boredoms,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lou Reed,
T.S.O.L.,
The Evens,
Marshall Jefferson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sugar Minott,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Minnie Riperton,
The Modern Lovers,
Ultimate Spinach,
Juan Atkins,
E-Dancer,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Subhumans,
Crime,
The Remains,
Dark Day,
Lebanon Hanover,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Letta Mbulu,
Country Teasers,
Deepchord,
B.T. Express,
Index,
The Tremeloes,
Monolake,
The Stooges,
Sandy B,
Chrome,
The Moleskins,
Flamin' Groovies,
Peter & Gordon,
a-ha,
The Alarm Clocks,
David Bowie,
Dorothy Ashby,
Infiniti,
Massinfluence,
Camberwell Now,
The Sound,
Sonny Sharrock,
David Axelrod,
The Mojo Men,
The Searchers,
Nation of Ulysses,
Banda Bassotti,
Amon Düül,
Echospace,
Rhythm & Sound,
Janne Schatter,
Bob Dylan,
Sällskapet,
Marcia Griffiths,
Moebius,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.