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 Niger and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Girls At Our Best! 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 The Human League. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantaleimon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
The Fall,
The Moody Blues,
Young Marble Giants,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Motions,
Negative Approach,
The Evens,
Gichy Dan,
Roger Hodgson,
Mantronix,
David Axelrod,
Derrick May,
New Age Steppers,
The Pretty Things,
Kerri Chandler,
The Moleskins,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Barracudas,
Chris & Cosey,
Tubeway Army,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Black Sheep,
Scan 7,
JFA,
Tres Demented,
Max Romeo,
Godley & Creme,
Gang Green,
Desert Stars,
Steve Hackett,
Charles Mingus,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Mojo Men,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Au Pairs,
The Young Rascals,
Al Stewart,
Infiniti,
Tropical Tobacco,
L. Decosne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Aaron Thompson,
Glenn Branca,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kaleidoscope,
The Stooges,
The Modern Lovers,
The Birthday Party,
Quantec,
The Tremeloes,
Flamin' Groovies,
Minor Threat,
PIL,
Unwound,
Juan Atkins,
Nas,
Spandau Ballet,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Scratch Acid,
Radio Birdman,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.