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 Poland and from Lille.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 The Leaves 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 Junior Murvin. All the underground hits.
All The Cramps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
Kenny Larkin,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Marine Girls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Last Poets,
Gil Scott Heron,
Dennis Brown,
June Days,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Sound,
Visage,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Monks,
Gastr Del Sol,
Fad Gadget,
Shuggie Otis,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Qualms,
China Crisis,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Fall,
Boredoms,
Suicide,
Throbbing Gristle,
Susan Cadogan,
Fear,
Flipper,
Massinfluence,
Grauzone,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Rites of Spring,
Erykah Badu,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Pole,
Eric B and Rakim,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Delta 5,
Scientists,
Fugazi,
Deakin,
Patti Smith,
Sexual Harrassment,
Charles Mingus,
Drexciya,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Radiohead,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Mantronix,
Subhumans,
Ice-T,
Country Teasers,
Kaleidoscope,
Sparks,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Quando Quango,
Sandy B,
Joe Finger,
KRS-One,
Skaos,
Quadrant,
Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks.
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.