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 Panama and from Delhi.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Taipei.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Isaac Hayes to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All Blossom Toes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Sheep 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Theoretical Girls,
Ludus,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pulsallama,
Television Personalities,
Maleditus Sound,
Sixth Finger,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Dennis Brown,
The Human League,
Desert Stars,
The Monks,
the Germs,
Slick Rick,
Icehouse,
Tropical Tobacco,
Alison Limerick,
Moss Icon,
10cc,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Radiopuhelimet,
Crime,
Main Source,
UT,
Masters at Work,
Marcia Griffiths,
Los Fastidios,
Janne Schatter,
The Blues Magoos,
Negative Approach,
The Gories,
The Smiths,
David McCallum,
The Velvet Underground,
The Knickerbockers,
Bronski Beat,
KRS-One,
La Düsseldorf,
Stetsasonic,
The Searchers,
The Five Americans,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Brick,
Lungfish,
Little Man,
Loose Ends,
Roxy Music,
Echospace,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Wire,
Aswad,
Massinfluence,
a-ha,
Japan,
Kool Moe Dee,
Cybotron,
Delta 5,
Malaria!,
Quando Quango,
Neu!,
Model 500,
The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds.
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.