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 Angola and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the theremin 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 Ohio Players to the crunk 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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
Soft Machine,
Can,
JFA,
The Gladiators,
Public Image Ltd.,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Livin' Joy,
Soul Sonic Force,
Interpol,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Velvet Underground,
Little Man,
Sandy B,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Zapp,
Crime,
The Vogues,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Nas,
Panda Bear,
Joe Finger,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Eric Copeland,
Tom Boy,
June Days,
The Beau Brummels,
Gerry Rafferty,
Junior Murvin,
Fatback Band,
Japan,
Eric B and Rakim,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Leonard Cohen,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Delta 5,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sam Rivers,
Laurel Aitken,
The Birthday Party,
Stetsasonic,
The Real Kids,
This Heat,
Morten Harket,
Essential Logic,
Monks,
The Blackbyrds,
Gang of Four,
Popol Vuh,
The Searchers,
The Durutti Column,
Goldenarms,
Cal Tjader,
Crash Course in Science,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Blossom Toes,
Subhumans,
Mr. Review,
The Alarm Clocks,
Barrington Levy,
Quando Quango,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
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.