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 Zimbabwe and from Milan.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Banda Bassotti to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Newcleus. All the underground hits.
All Angry Samoans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boogie Down Productions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mark Hollis,
MDC,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
JFA,
Essential Logic,
The Vogues,
Nation of Ulysses,
Parry Music,
These Immortal Souls,
Todd Rundgren,
Urselle,
The Moleskins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Desert Stars,
Pet Shop Boys,
U.S. Maple,
Skriet,
Max Romeo,
The Seeds,
Fat Boys,
Dawn Penn,
Lightning Bolt,
The Stooges,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sam Rivers,
Swans,
The Star Department,
Reagan Youth,
Brothers Johnson,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Charles Mingus,
Fear,
Pierre Henry,
Idris Muhammad,
Anakelly,
Minutemen,
Stereo Dub,
The Walker Brothers,
Gabor Szabo,
The Motions,
Visage,
Soft Cell,
Qualms,
The Blackbyrds,
Tubeway Army,
Lungfish,
Kaleidoscope,
Buzzcocks,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sunsets and Hearts,
MC5,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Moss Icon,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Television Personalities,
The Associates,
the Germs,
Lalann,
Drexciya,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.