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 Austria and from Glasgow.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 The Chocolate Watch Band to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Standells. All the underground hits.
All Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Charles Mingus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cure,
The Move,
Neil Young,
China Crisis,
Bootsy Collins,
Juan Atkins,
Isaac Hayes,
The Red Krayola,
Delta 5,
Morten Harket,
The Motions,
The Names,
Colin Newman,
June of 44,
Flash Fearless,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sarah Menescal,
Barclay James Harvest,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Eurythmics,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Bar-Kays,
Suburban Knight,
Anakelly,
Sun Ra,
Bronski Beat,
Organ,
The Seeds,
Andrew Hill,
The Misunderstood,
Godley & Creme,
Main Source,
Rhythm & Sound,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Tremeloes,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Marine Girls,
Television,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Absolute Body Control,
Rosa Yemen,
Al Stewart,
The Victims,
Cymande,
Qualms,
Skarface,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Fatback Band,
Fela Kuti,
cv313,
Loose Ends,
The Monochrome Set,
The Searchers,
Mantronix,
Be Bop Deluxe,
John Cale,
Roxy Music,
Ossler,
Monolake,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade.
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.