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 Slovenia and from Paris.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Tehran.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Move to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Minnie Riperton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool Moe Dee,
Chrome,
Lucky Dragons,
Eric Dolphy,
Donald Byrd,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Severed Heads,
Beasts of Bourbon,
R.M.O.,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sight & Sound,
Sarah Menescal,
Sugar Minott,
U.S. Maple,
Little Man,
Kaleidoscope,
Robert Görl,
Howard Jones,
Cymande,
Public Enemy,
Marine Girls,
Deadbeat,
Soul II Soul,
Dennis Brown,
Henry Cow,
Ronnie Foster,
Surgeon,
Roy Ayers,
The Gap Band,
Black Sheep,
Bill Near,
Eli Mardock,
The Offenders,
Frankie Knuckles,
Prince Buster,
Althea and Donna,
Barrington Levy,
Eurythmics,
Wire,
Davy DMX,
New Order,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ornette Coleman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Half Japanese,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sam Rivers,
Stiv Bators,
Michelle Simonal,
Neil Young,
The Human League,
Au Pairs,
Al Stewart,
Magma,
Moby Grape,
Kerri Chandler,
Rod Modell,
The United States of America,
The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party.
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.