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 Armenia 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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Erasure to the funk 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 Interpol. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moody Blues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Searchers,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Divine Comedy,
Robert Wyatt,
Pierre Henry,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Cramps,
Soul II Soul,
Can,
Yellowson,
Arthur Verocai,
The Motions,
Aloha Tigers,
Curtis Mayfield,
Skarface,
The Count Five,
Henry Cow,
Trumans Water,
Sexual Harrassment,
Subhumans,
Faust,
The Victims,
The Mojo Men,
Donald Byrd,
Boredoms,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rufus Thomas,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Rites of Spring,
Newcleus,
Bauhaus,
Stockholm Monsters,
Bush Tetras,
Eve St. Jones,
Crime,
Yazoo,
Grandmaster Flash,
One Last Wish,
Tubeway Army,
Rekid,
Easy Going,
Unrelated Segments,
Minny Pops,
Todd Rundgren,
Joy Division,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Girls At Our Best!,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Shuggie Otis,
The J.B.'s,
Sister Nancy,
Ohio Players,
John Lydon,
Ultra Naté,
Moby Grape,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Sparks,
The Smiths,
Josef K,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.