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 Malaysia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liliput record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Half Japanese record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Urselle,
Make Up,
Cymande,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Dark Day,
Robert Wyatt,
DJ Sneak,
Electric Prunes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Barrington Levy,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Boredoms,
Ronan,
These Immortal Souls,
The Happenings,
The Shadows of Knight,
Pole,
The Fuzztones,
Niagra,
Surgeon,
Pere Ubu,
Basic Channel,
Peter & Gordon,
Delon & Dalcan,
Janne Schatter,
Ten City,
The Human League,
John Coltrane,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sugar Minott,
Flipper,
June Days,
H. Thieme,
Goldenarms,
Organ,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Anthony Braxton,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
LL Cool J,
Henry Cow,
Eve St. Jones,
The Gap Band,
Dual Sessions,
The Leaves,
Silicon Teens,
The Electric Prunes,
K-Klass,
Rosa Yemen,
The Divine Comedy,
Joy Division,
The Golliwogs,
Neu!,
Sun Ra,
Magazine,
The Standells,
The Dirtbombs,
Robert Görl,
Minor Threat,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
the Bar-Kays,
Steve Hackett,
Visage,
Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic.
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.