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 Taiwan and from Toronto.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 snare 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 Funkadelic to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Mark Hollis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fire Engines record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Byrd record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Boredoms,
Carl Craig,
Nirvana,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Godley & Creme,
Althea and Donna,
The Birthday Party,
Pantytec,
Ken Boothe,
The Buckinghams,
Gang Green,
Gang Starr,
The Residents,
Johnny Clarke,
The Monochrome Set,
D'Angelo,
Magazine,
Masters at Work,
Electric Prunes,
Funky Four + One,
Jeff Lynne,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bobbi Humphrey,
48th St. Collective,
Interpol,
Marine Girls,
Jerry's Kids,
Groovy Waters,
Von Mondo,
Shuggie Otis,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Stiv Bators,
Letta Mbulu,
Crooked Eye,
Mandrill,
Pylon,
Josef K,
Amon Düül II,
the Association,
China Crisis,
Sister Nancy,
Kerri Chandler,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Mad Mike,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Seeds,
Pere Ubu,
The Sound,
Cluster,
Bush Tetras,
Jandek,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Khruangbin,
Royal Trux,
Rapeman,
The Evens,
The American Breed,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Hoover,
Joyce Sims,
The Remains,
the Normal,
Urselle, Urselle, Urselle, Urselle.
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.