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 Lithuania and from Mexico City.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Bologna.
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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 10cc to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Underground Resistance,
The Seeds,
Chrome,
Neu!,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
La Düsseldorf,
Pantytec,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Arthur Verocai,
Pharoah Sanders,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Shadows of Knight,
Rapeman,
Circle Jerks,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Jeff Lynne,
Bobby Sherman,
Theoretical Girls,
Crime,
Kayak,
a-ha,
The Monochrome Set,
Negative Approach,
Pole,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
B.T. Express,
The Fire Engines,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Aural Exciters,
Lou Christie,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Reagan Youth,
In Retrospect,
Todd Rundgren,
Black Bananas,
Rakim,
Agitation Free,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Deepchord,
The Fortunes,
L. Decosne,
Fluxion,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Gang Green,
DJ Sneak,
Shoche,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Mark Hollis,
Wire,
Absolute Body Control,
Warren Ellis,
Porter Ricks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lou Reed,
Pulsallama,
The Names,
Patti Smith,
The Five Americans,
Delta 5,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.