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 Ivory Coast and from Accra.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 The Gap Band. All the underground hits.
All Whodini tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Popol Vuh record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Matthew Halsall,
Thee Headcoats,
Junior Murvin,
Banda Bassotti,
Q and Not U,
Dave Gahan,
the Germs,
Brick,
Talk Talk,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Reuben Wilson,
Slick Rick,
Sonic Youth,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Seeds,
Zero Boys,
Lower 48,
X-101,
the Soft Cell,
Rosa Yemen,
The Electric Prunes,
Khruangbin,
The Monochrome Set,
Bizarre Inc.,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Scrapy,
The Tremeloes,
Aaron Thompson,
David McCallum,
CMW,
The Litter,
Panda Bear,
Skriet,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Procol Harum,
Index,
Japan,
Stiv Bators,
Nas,
Moebius,
48th St. Collective,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Byron Stingily,
The United States of America,
Saccharine Trust,
Hashim,
Barclay James Harvest,
Underground Resistance,
The Fugs,
Derrick May,
The Gun Club,
A Certain Ratio,
Gong,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Moleskins,
Alice Coltrane,
The Zeros,
Quando Quango,
Cluster,
Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks.
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.