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 Belgium and from Stockholm.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Dave Clark Five to the rock 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 Deakin. All the underground hits.
All Excepter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson 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 '90s.
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 Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
Idris Muhammad,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Eden Ahbez,
Young Marble Giants,
Patti Smith,
New Order,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Anthony Braxton,
Curtis Mayfield,
Isaac Hayes,
The Pop Group,
Fat Boys,
Popol Vuh,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Modern Lovers,
Sarah Menescal,
The Smiths,
Public Image Ltd.,
Second Layer,
Schoolly D,
The Gap Band,
Mantronix,
Minor Threat,
Qualms,
Lalo Schifrin,
Yazoo,
Kool Moe Dee,
Oblivians,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pere Ubu,
Rotary Connection,
Robert Görl,
The Zeros,
The Kinks,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Move,
Jimmy McGriff,
The United States of America,
Jeff Mills,
The Golliwogs,
Livin' Joy,
Flipper,
F. McDonald,
Simply Red,
Depeche Mode,
Inner City,
Oneida,
David McCallum,
Grey Daturas,
Technova,
Bush Tetras,
Joe Finger,
Sparks,
The Beau Brummels,
John Coltrane,
Babytalk,
Banda Bassotti,
Infiniti,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.