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 Jamaica and from Winnipeg.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 L. Decosne to the crunk 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 Prince Buster. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Duran Duran record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Derrick May,
Todd Rundgren,
June of 44,
Organ,
Sugar Minott,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Surgeon,
Gichy Dan,
Jacques Brel,
The Techniques,
The Monochrome Set,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Martian,
The Red Krayola,
The Fortunes,
DNA,
Cybotron,
KRS-One,
Trumans Water,
Kayak,
Soul II Soul,
Rotary Connection,
Ludus,
the Germs,
The New Christs,
The Young Rascals,
Amon Düül,
Funkadelic,
Alphaville,
Sandy B,
Groovy Waters,
Sällskapet,
Minny Pops,
Rosa Yemen,
Aloha Tigers,
Massinfluence,
The Barracudas,
L. Decosne,
The Wake,
Letta Mbulu,
The Grass Roots,
The Vogues,
Gil Scott Heron,
OOIOO,
Josef K,
The Velvet Underground,
Ultravox,
R.M.O.,
Desert Stars,
the Bar-Kays,
Harmonia,
Lungfish,
The Toasters,
Arthur Verocai,
the Soft Cell,
The Mojo Men,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Unwound,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Interpol,
Traffic Nightmare, Traffic Nightmare, Traffic Nightmare, Traffic Nightmare.
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.