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 Kuwait and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Blancmange to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxette 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pet Shop Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alphaville,
Lindisfarne,
Dawn Penn,
Underground Resistance,
Unwound,
LL Cool J,
Aloha Tigers,
Davy DMX,
The Pretty Things,
Skarface,
The Sound,
OOIOO,
Jeff Mills,
Sight & Sound,
Animal Collective,
The Gun Club,
Skriet,
Gerry Rafferty,
Kurtis Blow,
Colin Newman,
Porter Ricks,
Judy Mowatt,
Fluxion,
In Retrospect,
Derrick Morgan,
Terrestrial Tones,
Slave,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Grass Roots,
Nation of Ulysses,
A Certain Ratio,
Soul Sonic Force,
Vladislav Delay,
The Electric Prunes,
The Associates,
Soulsonic Force,
the Swans,
Shuggie Otis,
Marine Girls,
Mark Hollis,
Sonny Sharrock,
Panda Bear,
Rhythm & Sound,
Connie Case,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Masters at Work,
The Zeros,
Babytalk,
Barry Ungar,
Hashim,
Loose Ends,
Hoover,
Pulsallama,
Lou Reed,
Junior Murvin,
Gastr Del Sol,
New Age Steppers,
Kenny Larkin,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Gories, The Gories, The Gories, The Gories.
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.