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 El Salvador and from Mumbai.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the rhodes 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 The Smoke 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 Matthew Bourne. All the underground hits.
All Ituana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra,
Metal Thangz,
Urselle,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Misunderstood,
The Beau Brummels,
The Techniques,
Glenn Branca,
Circle Jerks,
Bootsy Collins,
Rites of Spring,
kango's stein massive,
Barry Ungar,
Banda Bassotti,
Ludus,
Piero Umiliani,
Eric Dolphy,
Index,
Q65,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Scott Walker,
Rakim,
Rosa Yemen,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Cecil Taylor,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Music Machine,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ossler,
The Smiths,
The Fall,
Jandek,
Crime,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Visage,
Andrew Hill,
Ronnie Foster,
The J.B.'s,
Lyres,
Stiv Bators,
Lou Christie,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Zeros,
Schoolly D,
Tomorrow,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Pylon,
ABBA,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Fela Kuti,
The Barracudas,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Alphaville,
the Association,
Soft Cell,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Jerry's Kids,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Index,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
JFA,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.