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 Zambia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 rhodes 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 The Associates to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Harry Pussy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
The Detroit Cobras,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
the Association,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Gories,
Whodini,
Maurizio,
Neil Young,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Godley & Creme,
Agent Orange,
Essential Logic,
Reuben Wilson,
Johnny Clarke,
Bob Dylan,
Severed Heads,
Surgeon,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Amazonics,
One Last Wish,
Pylon,
Wally Richardson,
Joe Smooth,
The Cure,
Jacob Miller,
Bush Tetras,
The Kinks,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Anakelly,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Sound,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Walker Brothers,
Sex Pistols,
The Fall,
Television,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Albert Ayler,
The Busters,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Electric Prunes,
Prince Buster,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Mojo Men,
Warsaw,
Simply Red,
Technova,
The Raincoats,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Camberwell Now,
Hardrive,
Magazine,
Boz Scaggs,
Patti Smith,
Scrapy,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Monochrome Set,
Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall.
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.