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 Oman and from Accra.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the theremin 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 Radiopuhelimet to the electroclash 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All the underground hits.
All Banda Bassotti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swell Maps 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grey Daturas,
Eddi Front,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Alison Limerick,
Lalo Schifrin,
Henry Cow,
Fela Kuti,
Moby Grape,
John Cale,
Erasure,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Misunderstood,
Jesper Dahlback,
8 Eyed Spy,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The American Breed,
Quando Quango,
Sällskapet,
Danielle Patucci,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Pet Shop Boys,
OOIOO,
Ronnie Foster,
Eli Mardock,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Make Up,
Soul Sonic Force,
Aural Exciters,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Connie Case,
Shuggie Otis,
Khruangbin,
Ohio Players,
The Modern Lovers,
Chrome,
10cc,
The Remains,
The Barracudas,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Skarface,
Delta 5,
The Techniques,
Tubeway Army,
The Fortunes,
Kurtis Blow,
Amon Düül,
Jerry's Kids,
Terrestrial Tones,
Half Japanese,
Buzzcocks,
Funkadelic,
Ten City,
Electric Prunes,
Popol Vuh,
Mandrill,
Morten Harket,
Delon & Dalcan,
Nico,
Sound Behaviour,
LL Cool J,
Robert Hood,
Letta Mbulu,
Avey Tare,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.