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 China and from Tehran.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Jakarta.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the snare 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 Eli Mardock to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All Guru Guru tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eli Mardock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Deakin,
The Dave Clark Five,
Hasil Adkins,
Moebius,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Swell Maps,
Tomorrow,
The Gap Band,
Franke,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Maleditus Sound,
Lower 48,
Motorama,
Mark Hollis,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
June of 44,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Cybotron,
The Dead C,
New York Dolls,
Junior Murvin,
Pagans,
Leonard Cohen,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Loose Ends,
Matthew Bourne,
10cc,
The Cowsills,
Isaac Hayes,
Joensuu 1685,
the Bar-Kays,
Sex Pistols,
The Happenings,
Hoover,
Lee Hazlewood,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Technova,
OOIOO,
Section 25,
Ludus,
The Birthday Party,
The Offenders,
Banda Bassotti,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Iggy Pop,
Man Parrish,
John Coltrane,
Can,
Shoche,
Camberwell Now,
Young Marble Giants,
Harry Pussy,
The Seeds,
Jesper Dahlback,
Mantronix,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Electric Prunes,
Newcleus,
Kevin Saunderson,
the Swans,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.