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 East Timor and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the sitar 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 Mark Hollis to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
T.S.O.L.,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Howard Jones,
The Music Machine,
The Motions,
Oblivians,
The Searchers,
Absolute Body Control,
Schoolly D,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Eurythmics,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
ABBA,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Los Fastidios,
Motorama,
John Coltrane,
Essential Logic,
Gerry Rafferty,
Skaos,
Janne Schatter,
The Star Department,
The Divine Comedy,
The Sound,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Alton Ellis,
The Blues Magoos,
Franke,
Marine Girls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Public Image Ltd.,
Todd Rundgren,
Loose Ends,
Bang On A Can,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Techniques,
Little Man,
David Bowie,
Vainqueur,
Kayak,
Grey Daturas,
Ice-T,
Althea and Donna,
Jeff Lynne,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Heaven 17,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Patti Smith,
Flamin' Groovies,
Tom Boy,
Moby Grape,
Johnny Osbourne,
Terrestrial Tones,
Matthew Halsall,
Cal Tjader,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Fugazi,
Nico,
E-Dancer,
Cybotron,
Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon.
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.