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 Somalia and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Colin Newman 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 The Blues Magoos. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mummies 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Raincoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Martian,
Amon Düül,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Masters at Work,
Dual Sessions,
Deakin,
Ten City,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bill Near,
Arab on Radar,
Bush Tetras,
Nico,
The Star Department,
Nick Fraelich,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Au Pairs,
The Walker Brothers,
Joyce Sims,
The Skatalites,
The Beau Brummels,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Idris Muhammad,
Aswad,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Cal Tjader,
Fugazi,
Lower 48,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sunsets and Hearts,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Spandau Ballet,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Morten Harket,
The Raincoats,
Iggy Pop,
Country Teasers,
The Monochrome Set,
Eric Copeland,
Bad Manners,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Saints,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Black Moon,
ABBA,
Radiohead,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dawn Penn,
Deadbeat,
Pere Ubu,
Dave Gahan,
London Community Gospel Choir,
DJ Sneak,
Scratch Acid,
Theoretical Girls,
In Retrospect,
New Order,
Basic Channel,
The J.B.'s,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.