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 .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the rock 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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Absolute Body Control,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Circle Jerks,
Connie Case,
Archie Shepp,
Intrusion,
Freddie Wadling,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Crime,
Lebanon Hanover,
Maleditus Sound,
The Skatalites,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lower 48,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ultra Naté,
FM Einheit,
Letta Mbulu,
Ken Boothe,
Isaac Hayes,
Hashim,
Fat Boys,
The Zeros,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Talk Talk,
Ponytail,
Glenn Branca,
Lou Reed,
Marine Girls,
Al Stewart,
Tres Demented,
Eve St. Jones,
Sam Rivers,
Khruangbin,
Sandy B,
Nik Kershaw,
Loose Ends,
David Bowie,
Half Japanese,
Laurel Aitken,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
ABC,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Leaves,
Agitation Free,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Seeds,
Gastr Del Sol,
Don Cherry,
Make Up,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Arcadia,
Crash Course in Science,
Radiohead,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Slackers,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Fear,
Bauhaus,
Reagan Youth,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.