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 Kenya and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Ultravox to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All Grey Daturas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed,
Pylon,
Scion,
Throbbing Gristle,
Eden Ahbez,
Ohio Players,
Ultimate Spinach,
Gabor Szabo,
Camberwell Now,
Thee Headcoats,
ABBA,
The Count Five,
Minnie Riperton,
Skriet,
Jerry's Kids,
Mars,
Cybotron,
Sixth Finger,
John Foxx,
Gang Gang Dance,
Rakim,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Underground Resistance,
EPMD,
Cecil Taylor,
Suburban Knight,
Rosa Yemen,
kango's stein massive,
cv313,
Glambeats Corp.,
Black Flag,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Talk Talk,
Terrestrial Tones,
Tim Buckley,
Quando Quango,
Electric Prunes,
Vainqueur,
Radiopuhelimet,
Yellowson,
The Dead C,
Archie Shepp,
Marshall Jefferson,
Nirvana,
Minny Pops,
The Last Poets,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Supertramp,
Bluetip,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Minutemen,
Ossler,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Eddi Front,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Crash Course in Science,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Wasted Youth,
The Cure,
Kayak,
Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus.
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.