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 Sri Lanka and from Madrid.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 The Divine Comedy to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All The Busters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Music Machine 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masters at Work record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Isaac Hayes,
Panda Bear,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Boogie Down Productions,
Pulsallama,
The Fall,
Eric Copeland,
Theoretical Girls,
Shoche,
Terrestrial Tones,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Au Pairs,
Rod Modell,
The Young Rascals,
Bobby Sherman,
Rufus Thomas,
Nik Kershaw,
Faraquet,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Pole,
China Crisis,
Lyres,
Junior Murvin,
Lou Reed,
Darondo,
Dual Sessions,
Pierre Henry,
The Angels of Light,
Frankie Knuckles,
KRS-One,
Matthew Bourne,
The Leaves,
DNA,
Funkadelic,
Black Flag,
Lou Christie,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Birthday Party,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cal Tjader,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jeff Lynne,
The Vogues,
The Barracudas,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Laurel Aitken,
Byron Stingily,
Warren Ellis,
Black Sheep,
Mark Hollis,
Lalo Schifrin,
Scion,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Monks,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Cure,
Deakin,
Bobby Hutcherson,
MC5,
Outsiders,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.