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 El Salvador and from Columbus.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 mellotron 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 Main Source to the jazz 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 8 Eyed Spy. All the underground hits.
All Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moody Blues record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron 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 spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sly & The Family Stone,
Dark Day,
Anakelly,
Ken Boothe,
Popol Vuh,
Eric Dolphy,
The Gap Band,
Stereo Dub,
Porter Ricks,
10cc,
DNA,
The Associates,
Japan,
Roger Hodgson,
UT,
Graham Central Station,
Monolake,
Soulsonic Force,
Gang of Four,
Funkadelic,
Mad Mike,
8 Eyed Spy,
Dennis Brown,
The Black Dice,
Josef K,
Black Flag,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Standells,
Pierre Henry,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lou Reed,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Joe Smooth,
a-ha,
Duran Duran,
Ossler,
Davy DMX,
Lou Christie,
Oneida,
Moss Icon,
Lyres,
Rosa Yemen,
Average White Band,
Urselle,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ituana,
Maleditus Sound,
FM Einheit,
Iggy Pop,
Smog,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Flesh Eaters,
Index,
Section 25,
Wings,
Unrelated Segments,
Clear Light,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Goldenarms,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.