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 Korea North and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 oboe 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 Can to the funk 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 Rufus Thomas. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Trumans Water record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Qualms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mars,
Deakin,
The Fall,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Standells,
Mission of Burma,
The American Breed,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bang On A Can,
Crispy Ambulance,
Cheater Slicks,
Bluetip,
Vladislav Delay,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Stereo Dub,
LL Cool J,
Duran Duran,
Joey Negro,
Crime,
Glenn Branca,
The Barracudas,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Godley & Creme,
Nico,
Thompson Twins,
Juan Atkins,
The Velvet Underground,
Fugazi,
Grandmaster Flash,
Delta 5,
June Days,
La Düsseldorf,
Icehouse,
Rekid,
Gregory Isaacs,
Urselle,
Eden Ahbez,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Shadows of Knight,
T.S.O.L.,
The Human League,
Index,
Ultimate Spinach,
Pere Ubu,
CMW,
the Soft Cell,
Dual Sessions,
Lightning Bolt,
Lalann,
The Cure,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Crash Course in Science,
Derrick Morgan,
Marine Girls,
Khruangbin,
Toni Rubio,
Y Pants,
Nils Olav,
Fear,
Rosa Yemen,
The Angels of Light,
Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy.
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.