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 Eritrea and from Taipei.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Bologna.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Barry Ungar to the techno 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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Grey Daturas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Little Man 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scrapy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Marshall Jefferson,
Moebius,
The Associates,
Magma,
Tom Boy,
Liliput,
Skriet,
Steve Hackett,
Todd Rundgren,
Excepter,
Section 25,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alphaville,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
ABC,
The Searchers,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Divine Comedy,
Basic Channel,
Suburban Knight,
The Flesh Eaters,
Nirvana,
Maleditus Sound,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Techniques,
The Durutti Column,
The Dave Clark Five,
Patti Smith,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Peter and Kerry,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Sonics,
Traffic Nightmare,
T. Rex,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Rekid,
Black Sheep,
Mr. Review,
Rites of Spring,
Little Man,
Chrome,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Curtis Mayfield,
Brass Construction,
Drive Like Jehu,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
10cc,
The Selecter,
Vladislav Delay,
Saccharine Trust,
Camberwell Now,
Outsiders,
Skaos,
Tommy Roe,
Spoonie Gee,
Todd Terry,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.