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 Venezuela and from Edmonton.
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 Lyon and Bremen.
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 linndrum 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 Rekid to the dance 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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All Aloha Tigers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cameo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cecil Taylor,
Jeff Lynne,
Aswad,
Television Personalities,
June Days,
Public Image Ltd.,
X-102,
Hashim,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Black Pus,
Barbara Tucker,
the Swans,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Delon & Dalcan,
Harmonia,
The J.B.'s,
Andrew Hill,
B.T. Express,
Lalo Schifrin,
Cheater Slicks,
Deepchord,
James Chance & The Contortions,
This Heat,
The Pop Group,
Byron Stingily,
Flamin' Groovies,
Unrelated Segments,
Josef K,
Prince Buster,
Kool Moe Dee,
Barclay James Harvest,
Thompson Twins,
The Misunderstood,
Thee Headcoats,
Derrick May,
10cc,
The Fall,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Knickerbockers,
The Associates,
Lungfish,
John Cale,
Zero Boys,
Massinfluence,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marine Girls,
Jacques Brel,
Deakin,
Jawbox,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Standells,
Sonny Sharrock,
Tears for Fears,
Rotary Connection,
The Count Five,
Bobby Byrd,
Roy Ayers,
Absolute Body Control,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight.
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.