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 Egypt and from Woodstock.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Hasil Adkins 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 Tropical Tobacco. All the underground hits.
All The Fall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool Moe Dee record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terry Callier,
Essential Logic,
Rekid,
Joensuu 1685,
Kool Moe Dee,
Danielle Patucci,
Rapeman,
Visage,
Hasil Adkins,
Rotary Connection,
Judy Mowatt,
AZ,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Audionom,
Cluster,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kayak,
Girls At Our Best!,
Cecil Taylor,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Music Machine,
Sister Nancy,
Y Pants,
Erasure,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Fugs,
Bob Dylan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Harpers Bizarre,
Nico,
Avey Tare,
The Index,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bobby Womack,
Bill Near,
Brand Nubian,
Sound Behaviour,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Shoche,
D'Angelo,
New York Dolls,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Electric Prunes,
UT,
the Slits,
Bill Wells,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Blake Baxter,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sixth Finger,
Marine Girls,
Fugazi,
Gang Starr,
Black Moon,
Ronan,
Surgeon,
Reagan Youth,
Brothers Johnson,
Traffic Nightmare,
Cheater Slicks,
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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.