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 Greece and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Lucky Dragons to the punk 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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All Alphaville tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Girls At Our Best! 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 a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tropical Tobacco,
Piero Umiliani,
Sam Rivers,
Wasted Youth,
Rapeman,
Buzzcocks,
The Cramps,
China Crisis,
Jeff Mills,
ABC,
The Moody Blues,
Joy Division,
Steve Hackett,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Minnie Riperton,
Simply Red,
David Axelrod,
EPMD,
Scientists,
cv313,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Move,
Depeche Mode,
Eurythmics,
Maleditus Sound,
Isaac Hayes,
The Mummies,
Smog,
Crooked Eye,
Aswad,
Mars,
Henry Cow,
Eli Mardock,
Slick Rick,
Moss Icon,
Peter & Gordon,
Graham Central Station,
John Lydon,
Dawn Penn,
The J.B.'s,
The Fall,
Gang Gang Dance,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Mary Jane Girls,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lakeside,
Livin' Joy,
Radiohead,
Glenn Branca,
Jacob Miller,
Q65,
Underground Resistance,
The Fortunes,
Gang Green,
The Birthday Party,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Barracudas,
Mark Hollis,
Chris Corsano,
R.M.O.,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.