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 Georgia and from Copenhagen.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Skatalites to the disco 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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boogie Down Productions 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marc Almond,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ludus,
Radio Birdman,
Basic Channel,
Lucky Dragons,
The Durutti Column,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ken Boothe,
The Sound,
The Red Krayola,
Black Pus,
The Human League,
Sight & Sound,
MC5,
Scientists,
Terry Callier,
48th St. Collective,
Ralphi Rosario,
DJ Style,
Boz Scaggs,
Brand Nubian,
Aswad,
Derrick Morgan,
Black Flag,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
K-Klass,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Reuben Wilson,
Susan Cadogan,
Crash Course in Science,
X-102,
Underground Resistance,
David Bowie,
One Last Wish,
Curtis Mayfield,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Funky Four + One,
Ronan,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Minnie Riperton,
Boredoms,
Eli Mardock,
kango's stein massive,
Robert Hood,
Archie Shepp,
Eurythmics,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Minny Pops,
Matthew Bourne,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
X-101,
Matthew Halsall,
Country Teasers,
Lou Christie,
Robert Görl,
the Swans,
Los Fastidios,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Circle Jerks,
This Heat,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.