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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 mellotron 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 Kaleidoscope to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Kango’s Stein Massive. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Outsiders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Holt,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jimmy McGriff,
the Swans,
Flamin' Groovies,
Cal Tjader,
Nico,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sun City Girls,
Mandrill,
Yusef Lateef,
Duran Duran,
Lower 48,
The Beau Brummels,
Skriet,
CMW,
The Fuzztones,
Marine Girls,
cv313,
Moss Icon,
Radiohead,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Birthday Party,
The Cowsills,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
ABC,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Hardrive,
Alphaville,
Gang Gang Dance,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
kango's stein massive,
Crooked Eye,
Amon Düül,
X-Ray Spex,
Roy Ayers,
Thompson Twins,
B.T. Express,
The Slackers,
Dead Boys,
Tim Buckley,
Joey Negro,
Sixth Finger,
Soft Cell,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Black Flag,
Carl Craig,
Average White Band,
Radiopuhelimet,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Niagra,
Shoche,
Arab on Radar,
Bill Wells,
DNA,
Nation of Ulysses,
New York Dolls,
Jacques Brel,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Scion,
Crispian St. Peters,
Section 25,
the Slits, the Slits, the Slits, the Slits.
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.