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 Luxembourg and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Columbus.
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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Marine Girls to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Searchers. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gun Club 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerrie Biddell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kaleidoscope,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Red Krayola,
David Axelrod,
Infiniti,
Freddie Wadling,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lalann,
Gong,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jeff Mills,
Bobby Byrd,
The Gap Band,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kurtis Blow,
Basic Channel,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Andrew Hill,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ponytail,
Silicon Teens,
The Slackers,
Intrusion,
Sound Behaviour,
Idris Muhammad,
Hot Snakes,
Bronski Beat,
Country Teasers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Black Bananas,
Anthony Braxton,
The Motions,
Deadbeat,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Tim Buckley,
Carl Craig,
Jeru the Damaja,
the Human League,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Move,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lyres,
Morten Harket,
Liliput,
Los Fastidios,
Shuggie Otis,
Hashim,
The Detroit Cobras,
Make Up,
Gerry Rafferty,
the Swans,
Roy Ayers,
Camouflage,
ABBA,
X-Ray Spex,
ABC,
Wally Richardson,
Jimmy McGriff,
Swans,
Kevin Saunderson,
Motorama,
Man Parrish,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.