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 Barbados and from Houston.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Sound Behaviour to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Public Image Ltd.. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Section 25 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bauhaus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Inner City,
Gastr Del Sol,
Altered Images,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Hasil Adkins,
Yazoo,
Alison Limerick,
Susan Cadogan,
Adolescents,
The Evens,
Erykah Badu,
The Offenders,
Q and Not U,
Whodini,
Dennis Brown,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Gladiators,
Mandrill,
Los Fastidios,
Gong,
Banda Bassotti,
The Walker Brothers,
Blake Baxter,
The Last Poets,
Yusef Lateef,
Sun Ra,
Stereo Dub,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Television,
Danielle Patucci,
Mr. Review,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Surgeon,
Nik Kershaw,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
the Normal,
Blancmange,
Bluetip,
Marvin Gaye,
The Move,
The Velvet Underground,
Eli Mardock,
Quadrant,
The Index,
Curtis Mayfield,
Jeff Lynne,
the Human League,
Oblivians,
The Music Machine,
Yellowson,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Amon Düül II,
Cal Tjader,
Desert Stars,
Sarah Menescal,
Barbara Tucker,
The Detroit Cobras,
Stockholm Monsters,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.