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 Indonesia and from Copenhagen.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 MC5 to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yaz,
Godley & Creme,
Youth Brigade,
Jeff Lynne,
The Zeros,
ABBA,
cv313,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Siglo XX,
Animal Collective,
It's A Beautiful Day,
the Bar-Kays,
La Düsseldorf,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Khruangbin,
Pylon,
This Heat,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rekid,
Ultravox,
Gang Gang Dance,
Monolake,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Boredoms,
Michelle Simonal,
B.T. Express,
The Standells,
Accadde A,
Roger Hodgson,
Brick,
The Monochrome Set,
Mars,
The Selecter,
Joe Smooth,
Kaleidoscope,
Newcleus,
Wasted Youth,
Von Mondo,
Los Fastidios,
Royal Trux,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Mummies,
Todd Terry,
Roxy Music,
The Durutti Column,
The Slackers,
Archie Shepp,
Robert Hood,
The Remains,
The Cure,
Moby Grape,
Shuggie Otis,
One Last Wish,
Eli Mardock,
Das Ding,
Whodini,
Flash Fearless,
Ohio Players,
The Techniques,
Desert Stars,
The Kinks,
The Count Five,
Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre.
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.