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 France and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 arpeggiator 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 Franke to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Graham Central Station. All the underground hits.
All Bauhaus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blancmange record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Slits record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lucky Dragons,
Delta 5,
The Toasters,
Infiniti,
Parry Music,
Graham Central Station,
Derrick May,
Groovy Waters,
The Golliwogs,
Slave,
Surgeon,
The Beau Brummels,
Unwound,
Rekid,
Quadrant,
R.M.O.,
Technova,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Danielle Patucci,
Albert Ayler,
Panda Bear,
Spoonie Gee,
Prince Buster,
Crooked Eye,
Mad Mike,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Visage,
Cal Tjader,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sister Nancy,
Kas Product,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rites of Spring,
The Moody Blues,
Sugar Minott,
Electric Prunes,
Angry Samoans,
Barry Ungar,
Fear,
Blancmange,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Alphaville,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fatback Band,
Charles Mingus,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Main Source,
L. Decosne,
Tubeway Army,
Gastr Del Sol,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lalo Schifrin,
Colin Newman,
Lebanon Hanover,
Fugazi,
The Five Americans,
The Shadows of Knight,
Jandek,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Brothers Johnson,
David Axelrod,
the Human League,
JFA, JFA, JFA, JFA.
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.