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 Brazil and from Lagos.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 linndrum 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 David McCallum 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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Music Machine,
Alphaville,
John Holt,
UT,
Radiohead,
Ice-T,
Anakelly,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Barracudas,
Ultravox,
Scion,
Unrelated Segments,
Bobby Womack,
Archie Shepp,
Blancmange,
Stetsasonic,
The Count Five,
Kool Moe Dee,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Angels of Light,
Unwound,
Avey Tare,
Schoolly D,
John Cale,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Shoche,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Leaves,
The Happenings,
Soft Cell,
Matthew Halsall,
kango's stein massive,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
ABC,
Country Teasers,
New York Dolls,
Dennis Brown,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Invisible,
Peter & Gordon,
Derrick May,
The Gories,
Albert Ayler,
Sparks,
Robert Görl,
Arthur Verocai,
Mantronix,
Quando Quango,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sexual Harrassment,
Circle Jerks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lou Christie,
Ossler,
The Smoke,
The Five Americans,
Black Flag,
Gichy Dan,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord.
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.