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 Bahrain and from Mumbai.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the güiro 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 Echo & the Bunnymen to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Sam Rivers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The J.B.'s record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Max Romeo,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Cowsills,
Sugar Minott,
Liliput,
The Smoke,
Lalann,
Hardrive,
Au Pairs,
Fear,
Iggy Pop,
Wire,
Toni Rubio,
Crispy Ambulance,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Amon Düül,
Stiv Bators,
Wasted Youth,
The Slits,
Danielle Patucci,
Half Japanese,
The Blues Magoos,
Marvin Gaye,
David Axelrod,
Skriet,
Shoche,
Groovy Waters,
Vainqueur,
U.S. Maple,
Sixth Finger,
Roger Hodgson,
Bill Wells,
Black Sheep,
Derrick May,
Technova,
Eric Dolphy,
Fugazi,
Todd Rundgren,
Motorama,
Godley & Creme,
The Real Kids,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Davy DMX,
Rotary Connection,
Clear Light,
Mo-Dettes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The New Christs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Martian,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ornette Coleman,
David Bowie,
Bill Near,
Pet Shop Boys,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan.
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.