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 Uganda and from Salvador.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Danielle Patucci to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Alice Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Royal Trux 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
Quadrant,
These Immortal Souls,
Spoonie Gee,
Marc Almond,
Scott Walker,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Silicon Teens,
Public Image Ltd.,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Davy DMX,
Porter Ricks,
Livin' Joy,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Andrew Hill,
Lalann,
Dave Gahan,
Jeff Mills,
This Heat,
Flipper,
Schoolly D,
Reagan Youth,
Dawn Penn,
Deakin,
Patti Smith,
Soulsonic Force,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Talk Talk,
The Real Kids,
Gang Gang Dance,
Smog,
Cal Tjader,
Warren Ellis,
10cc,
Yellowson,
Agitation Free,
K-Klass,
Visage,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Five Americans,
Ornette Coleman,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Robert Hood,
the Human League,
Faust,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Golliwogs,
Organ,
Stetsasonic,
Lee Hazlewood,
Roxette,
Main Source,
Carl Craig,
Byron Stingily,
Magma,
Fugazi,
Colin Newman,
Archie Shepp,
Eddi Front,
Cybotron,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rekid,
The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins.
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.