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 Georgia and from Lyon.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 David McCallum to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Black Dice 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Soft Machine,
Dead Boys,
The Wake,
The Count Five,
The Cowsills,
Sarah Menescal,
Shoche,
Deakin,
Scratch Acid,
Jandek,
Lyres,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Althea and Donna,
Danielle Patucci,
Marvin Gaye,
Robert Wyatt,
World's Most,
Marshall Jefferson,
Babytalk,
Quadrant,
Nas,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Flamin' Groovies,
Barbara Tucker,
The Victims,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Drive Like Jehu,
Thompson Twins,
Cybotron,
Blossom Toes,
The Knickerbockers,
The Remains,
Fluxion,
David McCallum,
The Evens,
Aural Exciters,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Offenders,
The United States of America,
Susan Cadogan,
the Germs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Dual Sessions,
The Fall,
Aloha Tigers,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Mark Hollis,
UT,
Qualms,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ituana,
Amon Düül,
Wings,
Minny Pops,
The Vogues,
Sällskapet,
Black Sheep,
The Velvet Underground,
The Zeros,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Blues Magoos,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.