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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 güiro 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 Cheater Slicks to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Cramps. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blackbyrds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Hardrive,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DJ Style,
Moebius,
Black Pus,
Archie Shepp,
Malaria!,
Black Flag,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Walker Brothers,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Amon Düül II,
Index,
The Misunderstood,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Tomorrow,
Schoolly D,
Swans,
Mark Hollis,
Von Mondo,
Barclay James Harvest,
Fad Gadget,
Gang of Four,
Eurythmics,
Henry Cow,
Liliput,
The Count Five,
Absolute Body Control,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pulsallama,
Donald Byrd,
Anakelly,
Derrick May,
the Slits,
The Buckinghams,
Lower 48,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Icehouse,
Buzzcocks,
Joyce Sims,
Rhythm & Sound,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Fugs,
Yaz,
The Stooges,
Outsiders,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sam Rivers,
Lalo Schifrin,
R.M.O.,
Lightning Bolt,
Tim Buckley,
Steve Hackett,
The Pop Group,
Au Pairs,
Television Personalities,
The Trojans,
Pet Shop Boys,
Wally Richardson,
Wire, Wire, Wire, Wire.
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.