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 Ghana and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 oboe 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 Maurizio to the jazz 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 Depeche Mode. All the underground hits.
All The Martian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Frankie Knuckles record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Sheep record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Fraelich,
The Smoke,
Eric B and Rakim,
Flash Fearless,
China Crisis,
Depeche Mode,
Mantronix,
Radiohead,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Groovy Waters,
Bluetip,
Jerry's Kids,
Minnie Riperton,
Sex Pistols,
Deadbeat,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sällskapet,
Joyce Sims,
Colin Newman,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Drexciya,
David Axelrod,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Simply Red,
Mandrill,
Fugazi,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Can,
Marine Girls,
Sun Ra,
Charles Mingus,
Rotary Connection,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Mars,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Todd Rundgren,
Heaven 17,
Lee Hazlewood,
Goldenarms,
Brand Nubian,
Ponytail,
The Five Americans,
Scratch Acid,
Reagan Youth,
the Slits,
Shoche,
Pantaleimon,
Scan 7,
Warren Ellis,
the Association,
Rekid,
T. Rex,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
D'Angelo,
Visage,
Metal Thangz,
Kas Product,
Ten City,
Clear Light,
Q and Not U,
Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith.
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.