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 United States and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 güiro 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 Alison Limerick to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Brick. All the underground hits.
All Terror Squad Feat. Camron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
The Real Kids,
Public Enemy,
Goldenarms,
Joe Finger,
Model 500,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Junior Murvin,
the Association,
Jerry's Kids,
The Wake,
The Five Americans,
Peter and Kerry,
The Grass Roots,
The Techniques,
Nick Fraelich,
R.M.O.,
Popol Vuh,
Cecil Taylor,
The Searchers,
Sonny Sharrock,
Moebius,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ludus,
Rufus Thomas,
Country Teasers,
Pierre Henry,
Anthony Braxton,
Shuggie Otis,
Godley & Creme,
Eve St. Jones,
Stereo Dub,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lalo Schifrin,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Yazoo,
Sound Behaviour,
Porter Ricks,
Sister Nancy,
Janne Schatter,
Absolute Body Control,
Main Source,
Patti Smith,
The Evens,
the Normal,
The Index,
Tom Boy,
Soul Sonic Force,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kerri Chandler,
Simply Red,
Nils Olav,
Crooked Eye,
Derrick Morgan,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Gang Starr,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Chris & Cosey,
Ralphi Rosario,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Niagra, Niagra, Niagra, Niagra.
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.