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 Finland and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 synthesizer 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 The Sound to the dance 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 Index. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe 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?
Youth Brigade,
The Skatalites,
Infiniti,
Barrington Levy,
Simply Red,
Television Personalities,
Neil Young,
Dorothy Ashby,
Y Pants,
Wasted Youth,
Nico,
Black Flag,
Derrick May,
David McCallum,
Gabor Szabo,
Malaria!,
Bluetip,
Anthony Braxton,
Avey Tare,
Little Man,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eurythmics,
Bronski Beat,
Althea and Donna,
Sun Ra,
Procol Harum,
Nation of Ulysses,
Ossler,
Albert Ayler,
the Bar-Kays,
Kaleidoscope,
Jawbox,
Fela Kuti,
Underground Resistance,
The Stooges,
Gang Green,
La Düsseldorf,
Cybotron,
Shuggie Otis,
Jacob Miller,
Bobby Womack,
Au Pairs,
Colin Newman,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Evens,
Leonard Cohen,
Dennis Brown,
Bad Manners,
China Crisis,
Alphaville,
Peter & Gordon,
Schoolly D,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Alison Limerick,
Thompson Twins,
Gil Scott Heron,
Make Up,
Jimmy McGriff,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kas Product,
FM Einheit,
Rhythm & Sound,
X-102,
The Cowsills, The Cowsills, The Cowsills, The Cowsills.
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.