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 Chad and from London.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Human League to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sexual Harrassment. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
Jesper Dahlback,
Duran Duran,
Lindisfarne,
Kevin Saunderson,
Slave,
Godley & Creme,
Hasil Adkins,
the Human League,
Dave Gahan,
Make Up,
Matthew Bourne,
Barbara Tucker,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Patti Smith,
Severed Heads,
Gang Gang Dance,
Cybotron,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Michelle Simonal,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The J.B.'s,
OOIOO,
Toni Rubio,
Trumans Water,
Deakin,
Avey Tare,
Tim Buckley,
Isaac Hayes,
Lyres,
Livin' Joy,
Gichy Dan,
David McCallum,
Moby Grape,
Section 25,
John Cale,
Mr. Review,
Q and Not U,
B.T. Express,
Bobby Womack,
Ronan,
Rakim,
The Slackers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kayak,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Doors,
Bobby Byrd,
The Residents,
kango's stein massive,
Drexciya,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bootsy Collins,
Los Fastidios,
Scratch Acid,
The Tremeloes,
One Last Wish,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
E-Dancer,
Qualms,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.