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 Turkey and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Rotary Connection to the grime 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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro 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 güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Index,
Mad Mike,
JFA,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Au Pairs,
Chrome,
Freddie Wadling,
Amon Düül II,
Delon & Dalcan,
Glenn Branca,
The Techniques,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Piero Umiliani,
Joensuu 1685,
Masters at Work,
Bobby Byrd,
Bizarre Inc.,
Heaven 17,
Alphaville,
Metal Thangz,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Pere Ubu,
Wire,
Hashim,
Siglo XX,
Ituana,
The Residents,
Saccharine Trust,
Ultravox,
Lee Hazlewood,
Hardrive,
Rites of Spring,
Kayak,
Hot Snakes,
Yellowson,
Stereo Dub,
Gang Gang Dance,
Alton Ellis,
DNA,
Easy Going,
Dave Gahan,
the Slits,
Sexual Harrassment,
Howard Jones,
Altered Images,
These Immortal Souls,
Banda Bassotti,
Massinfluence,
Smog,
10cc,
Parry Music,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Animal Collective,
Derrick Morgan,
Camberwell Now,
The Cramps,
Pantytec,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cameo,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Bad Manners,
L. Decosne,
The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins.
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.