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 Chile and from Philadelphia.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Josef K to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Smog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul Sonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cowsills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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?
Public Image Ltd.,
Urselle,
Lower 48,
Mandrill,
The Mummies,
Vainqueur,
Thompson Twins,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Count Five,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Symarip,
Easy Going,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bad Manners,
Stereo Dub,
Marine Girls,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Accadde A,
Girls At Our Best!,
John Holt,
10cc,
a-ha,
Harmonia,
Mr. Review,
Scion,
The Smoke,
Depeche Mode,
Tomorrow,
Camouflage,
X-102,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rod Modell,
June Days,
David Axelrod,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Yazoo,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Duran Duran,
Unrelated Segments,
Wolf Eyes,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Blues Magoos,
Sunsets and Hearts,
the Fania All-Stars,
Ralphi Rosario,
Matthew Halsall,
Ronan,
Ponytail,
Darondo,
The Techniques,
Janne Schatter,
Lebanon Hanover,
Drive Like Jehu,
Spandau Ballet,
Panda Bear,
Soft Machine,
Mad Mike,
Tears for Fears,
Infiniti,
Eric Copeland,
Charles Mingus,
X-Ray Spex,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.