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 Mozambique and from Lyon.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Fifty Foot Hose to the punk 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 Donny Hathaway. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ponytail,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Isaac Hayes,
The Smoke,
The Dead C,
Grandmaster Flash,
Harmonia,
Von Mondo,
Sister Nancy,
Joy Division,
Jandek,
Adolescents,
The American Breed,
Little Man,
Outsiders,
Toni Rubio,
Yusef Lateef,
Bobby Byrd,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Mary Jane Girls,
Crispian St. Peters,
Throbbing Gristle,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Lyres,
Cal Tjader,
Clear Light,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Joe Finger,
Moebius,
This Heat,
Gang Starr,
Oneida,
Procol Harum,
Boogie Down Productions,
Soft Machine,
The Misunderstood,
Ornette Coleman,
Johnny Clarke,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Fortunes,
Pagans,
AZ,
Joey Negro,
Con Funk Shun,
Neil Young,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sarah Menescal,
The Skatalites,
The Music Machine,
Kevin Saunderson,
Model 500,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Michelle Simonal,
Eddi Front,
the Soft Cell,
Moss Icon,
Icehouse,
Television Personalities,
Talk Talk,
Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins.
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.