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 Lebanon and from Columbus.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 Davy DMX to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Trojans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Iggy Pop record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scan 7 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camberwell Now,
The Evens,
Traffic Nightmare,
Popol Vuh,
Subhumans,
Soft Machine,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Durutti Column,
Agent Orange,
DJ Sneak,
Hardrive,
Kaleidoscope,
the Sonics,
Bronski Beat,
James Chance & The Contortions,
kango's stein massive,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gang Gang Dance,
Excepter,
The Angels of Light,
Dawn Penn,
Second Layer,
ABC,
The Sonics,
Drive Like Jehu,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Faraquet,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Misunderstood,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
R.M.O.,
Flamin' Groovies,
Amazonics,
Panda Bear,
Throbbing Gristle,
Jeff Lynne,
Sun Ra,
The Cramps,
Silicon Teens,
Deakin,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
A Certain Ratio,
Fluxion,
The Happenings,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Skatalites,
Aural Exciters,
The Music Machine,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
the Soft Cell,
U.S. Maple,
Motorama,
Rekid,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Blackbyrds,
Laurel Aitken,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Schoolly D,
Kool Moe Dee,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Alarm Clocks,
L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne.
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.