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 Panama and from Manila.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Radiohead to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rites of Spring record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ajijia Myrayebe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
Moebius,
Yellowson,
Black Moon,
Minnie Riperton,
Ice-T,
Section 25,
Nick Fraelich,
Ultimate Spinach,
Gerry Rafferty,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ohio Players,
L. Decosne,
Fatback Band,
Al Stewart,
Inner City,
Soul Sonic Force,
Saccharine Trust,
Tom Boy,
F. McDonald,
Aaron Thompson,
R.M.O.,
Todd Rundgren,
The Misunderstood,
Deadbeat,
James Chance & The Contortions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Reed,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Fugazi,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Delta 5,
Duran Duran,
Moby Grape,
Icehouse,
Marvin Gaye,
Ultra Naté,
Outsiders,
Lungfish,
Freddie Wadling,
Intrusion,
Soul II Soul,
Terrestrial Tones,
48th St. Collective,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Arthur Verocai,
T.S.O.L.,
8 Eyed Spy,
Basic Channel,
Robert Görl,
10cc,
Harry Pussy,
Dave Gahan,
Ornette Coleman,
Albert Ayler,
Sarah Menescal,
Blake Baxter,
Arab on Radar,
Ten City,
ABC,
Josef K,
Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill.
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.