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 Samoa and from Salvador.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Country Teasers. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fear,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Echospace,
Suburban Knight,
June of 44,
Patti Smith,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Hoover,
Arab on Radar,
Nas,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Colin Newman,
Flash Fearless,
Depeche Mode,
Sam Rivers,
DNA,
X-102,
Sound Behaviour,
Fad Gadget,
Rekid,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ralphi Rosario,
Arcadia,
Loose Ends,
Leonard Cohen,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The United States of America,
Boredoms,
Stetsasonic,
Joensuu 1685,
Unrelated Segments,
Scott Walker,
Mark Hollis,
Gang Gang Dance,
Royal Trux,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Buckinghams,
The Walker Brothers,
Joey Negro,
Chrome,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Con Funk Shun,
The Vogues,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Oneida,
Quantec,
The Fall,
Pharoah Sanders,
Skriet,
China Crisis,
OOIOO,
Radiohead,
The Sonics,
Fatback Band,
Sexual Harrassment,
Anakelly,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Yazoo,
The Smoke,
KRS-One,
Sun Ra,
The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels.
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.