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 Czech Republic and from Bologna.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 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 The Knickerbockers 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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Golliwogs,
Thompson Twins,
Fluxion,
Minor Threat,
Swans,
The Victims,
Michelle Simonal,
Sandy B,
10cc,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
KRS-One,
Television,
Matthew Halsall,
Moby Grape,
Goldenarms,
Audionom,
Animal Collective,
Wally Richardson,
Sister Nancy,
Jacques Brel,
The Busters,
Spoonie Gee,
The Blackbyrds,
Ohio Players,
Lightning Bolt,
The Young Rascals,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Tremeloes,
Ultravox,
Babytalk,
Terrestrial Tones,
Hardrive,
Black Bananas,
Jeff Mills,
Pantytec,
Half Japanese,
Flash Fearless,
Josef K,
The Martian,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Flipper,
Avey Tare,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bobby Womack,
X-102,
Organ,
Donald Byrd,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
MC5,
Chris Corsano,
The Birthday Party,
Nas,
The Velvet Underground,
Ponytail,
Make Up,
Sixth Finger,
Parry Music,
Minutemen,
Echospace, Echospace, Echospace, Echospace.
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.