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 Lille.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Ossler to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arab on Radar 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Hasil Adkins,
Kool Moe Dee,
Schoolly D,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Slits,
Lou Reed,
Sun Ra,
The Standells,
David Bowie,
Matthew Halsall,
Marvin Gaye,
Urselle,
Silicon Teens,
Stockholm Monsters,
Wings,
Angry Samoans,
Rosa Yemen,
Lungfish,
Maleditus Sound,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Vogues,
Soulsonic Force,
Ludus,
Vladislav Delay,
The Fire Engines,
Thee Headcoats,
John Holt,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Wake,
a-ha,
Make Up,
Althea and Donna,
Robert Hood,
Gichy Dan,
the Swans,
Newcleus,
Guru Guru,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Eve St. Jones,
Sparks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Velvet Underground,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Isaac Hayes,
Marshall Jefferson,
Anthony Braxton,
Hashim,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Reuben Wilson,
Aural Exciters,
X-101,
The Pop Group,
Altered Images,
Unrelated Segments,
Roxette, Roxette, Roxette, Roxette.
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.