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 Seychelles and from Portland.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the organ 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 Depeche Mode to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Warsaw. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
Agitation Free,
The Real Kids,
The Blues Magoos,
Animal Collective,
One Last Wish,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Radiohead,
Jerry Gold Smith,
T.S.O.L.,
Pierre Henry,
The Gladiators,
Ossler,
Johnny Osbourne,
Malaria!,
The Star Department,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Carl Craig,
CMW,
Agent Orange,
Dual Sessions,
The Remains,
Lou Reed,
Arcadia,
Robert Hood,
Icehouse,
Ten City,
Amon Düül II,
Yellowson,
The United States of America,
Rites of Spring,
Big Daddy Kane,
Can,
The Moody Blues,
Danielle Patucci,
Clear Light,
Mission of Burma,
Tomorrow,
Flash Fearless,
Schoolly D,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Index,
Leonard Cohen,
The Tremeloes,
Jerry's Kids,
Pere Ubu,
New Order,
Rod Modell,
Urselle,
Graham Central Station,
Eurythmics,
Japan,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Magma,
Warsaw,
Newcleus,
Deakin,
Blake Baxter,
Bobbi Humphrey,
L. Decosne,
Fat Boys,
The Gories,
PIL,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.