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 St Lucia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 linndrum 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the disco 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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Underground Resistance,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Janne Schatter,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Scrapy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Gories,
Traffic Nightmare,
Deakin,
Warsaw,
Fugazi,
Joe Finger,
Delta 5,
Lalann,
Derrick May,
Lower 48,
The Beau Brummels,
The Gladiators,
Kaleidoscope,
Albert Ayler,
The Skatalites,
Echospace,
The Names,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Zero Boys,
Quando Quango,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ronan,
Eddi Front,
Buzzcocks,
Loose Ends,
Pulsallama,
Aaron Thompson,
Sällskapet,
Yaz,
Avey Tare,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Malaria!,
A Flock of Seagulls,
June Days,
Wire,
The Kinks,
Skarface,
Rekid,
Quadrant,
Altered Images,
K-Klass,
John Cale,
John Lydon,
The Red Krayola,
The Leaves,
Bobby Sherman,
Mark Hollis,
Barry Ungar,
The Associates,
Japan,
Cheater Slicks,
The Trojans,
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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.