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 Tunisia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 clarinet 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 Stetsasonic to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Moss Icon. All the underground hits.
All Boz Scaggs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tears for Fears record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Darondo,
Underground Resistance,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Beau Brummels,
James White and The Blacks,
The Litter,
Moss Icon,
Bang On A Can,
The Associates,
Black Sheep,
New Age Steppers,
Grauzone,
Alison Limerick,
the Soft Cell,
Los Fastidios,
Vladislav Delay,
Urselle,
Idris Muhammad,
Groovy Waters,
Gerry Rafferty,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Eurythmics,
Eric Dolphy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Michelle Simonal,
Jawbox,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Moody Blues,
Black Flag,
Oneida,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Black Pus,
Rakim,
the Association,
Circle Jerks,
Glenn Branca,
Albert Ayler,
Kas Product,
Main Source,
Quadrant,
Boredoms,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Radiopuhelimet,
Scan 7,
Simply Red,
Bobby Womack,
Essential Logic,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Janne Schatter,
Amon Düül II,
K-Klass,
Flash Fearless,
Arcadia,
The Count Five,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.