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 Gabon and from Jakarta.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Standells to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
The New Christs,
Joy Division,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Freddie Wadling,
Yusef Lateef,
Roxette,
Radiopuhelimet,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Dave Clark Five,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Shuggie Otis,
Warren Ellis,
The Beau Brummels,
Q and Not U,
Absolute Body Control,
The Golliwogs,
Radiohead,
Boredoms,
Sixth Finger,
The Busters,
Colin Newman,
Tim Buckley,
Howard Jones,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Easy Going,
Tropical Tobacco,
Terry Callier,
Maurizio,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Harmonia,
The Doors,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Evens,
John Holt,
Josef K,
Jacob Miller,
Danielle Patucci,
Dawn Penn,
Yazoo,
Supertramp,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Jimmy McGriff,
Scratch Acid,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Quantec,
Eve St. Jones,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Newcleus,
Mark Hollis,
Black Moon,
Barbara Tucker,
Oneida,
Lalann,
Heaven 17,
Sam Rivers,
Bluetip,
Model 500,
The Fuzztones,
Aloha Tigers,
Joe Smooth,
The Alarm Clocks,
Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7.
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.