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 the UAE 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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the theremin 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 the Germs to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barrington Levy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blackbyrds,
Gastr Del Sol,
Joyce Sims,
In Retrospect,
Laurel Aitken,
Alison Limerick,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Electric Prunes,
Leonard Cohen,
Tubeway Army,
Bronski Beat,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Los Fastidios,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Offenders,
Sixth Finger,
Schoolly D,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Stockholm Monsters,
Surgeon,
Mo-Dettes,
Robert Hood,
Bobby Sherman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Faust,
Lee Hazlewood,
X-102,
Fatback Band,
Bob Dylan,
The Stooges,
Joy Division,
Minor Threat,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Dave Clark Five,
Hardrive,
Swans,
The Martian,
Thee Headcoats,
Marmalade,
The Five Americans,
Bad Manners,
Todd Terry,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Stiv Bators,
AZ,
The Velvet Underground,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bobby Byrd,
Funky Four + One,
Amazonics,
Kool Moe Dee,
Royal Trux,
Yusef Lateef,
Kerrie Biddell,
Jeff Mills,
Talk Talk,
Blake Baxter,
Toni Rubio,
Lightning Bolt,
The Vogues,
Johnny Clarke,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.