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 Slovakia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Kerri Chandler to the rap 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 Minor Threat. All the underground hits.
All Pere Ubu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalo Schifrin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Detroit Cobras record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
Joe Smooth,
Pulsallama,
The Trojans,
Mantronix,
The Flesh Eaters,
Gastr Del Sol,
Alphaville,
The Cowsills,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Nick Fraelich,
Avey Tare,
the Slits,
Lebanon Hanover,
Neil Young,
Vladislav Delay,
CMW,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Goldenarms,
Jesper Dahlback,
Guru Guru,
The Sound,
Y Pants,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Zapp,
The Dave Clark Five,
Section 25,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Scratch Acid,
Johnny Clarke,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Dead C,
The Cure,
Parry Music,
Tim Buckley,
Donald Byrd,
The Associates,
Intrusion,
Severed Heads,
Michelle Simonal,
Scion,
Steve Hackett,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Alison Limerick,
The Human League,
Little Man,
Skarface,
Dave Gahan,
Procol Harum,
Hashim,
The Move,
Das Ding,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Newcleus,
Ultravox,
Supertramp,
Warsaw,
Bronski Beat,
Sun Ra,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch 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.