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 Haiti and from Philadelphia.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Maurizio to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tres Demented record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lindisfarne,
The Music Machine,
Bluetip,
Skriet,
John Cale,
Magma,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eric Dolphy,
The Move,
This Heat,
Japan,
Peter & Gordon,
Infiniti,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Cramps,
Pet Shop Boys,
Nas,
Marine Girls,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Beau Brummels,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Suicide,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Fear,
June Days,
Dennis Brown,
Dark Day,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Piero Umiliani,
The Electric Prunes,
Skarface,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Trojans,
Wally Richardson,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Pagans,
The Zeros,
Marmalade,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
FM Einheit,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Girls At Our Best!,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Rotary Connection,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Technova,
The Misunderstood,
Fugazi,
The New Christs,
Crime,
In Retrospect,
Jawbox,
Groovy Waters,
Faraquet,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Radiopuhelimet,
Duran Duran,
Lou Christie,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.