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 the UAE and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Mexico City.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the oboe 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 Swell Maps to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Buzzcocks. All the underground hits.
All Simply Red tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Black Dice 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Five Americans,
Colin Newman,
Ludus,
OOIOO,
LL Cool J,
Soulsonic Force,
Henry Cow,
Prince Buster,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Aaron Thompson,
The Walker Brothers,
Hasil Adkins,
Eric Dolphy,
The Names,
Negative Approach,
Marcia Griffiths,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Wasted Youth,
Wire,
The Monks,
T.S.O.L.,
Neil Young,
Piero Umiliani,
Interpol,
The Invisible,
Blancmange,
Metal Thangz,
The Durutti Column,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Danielle Patucci,
Index,
Parry Music,
Ronnie Foster,
The Zeros,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Alton Ellis,
Cecil Taylor,
A Certain Ratio,
B.T. Express,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
48th St. Collective,
Desert Stars,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Jacques Brel,
The Move,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Adolescents,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eden Ahbez,
cv313,
Scrapy,
Panda Bear,
Roger Hodgson,
Intrusion,
Sun Ra,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bad Manners,
The Pretty Things,
Essential Logic,
Brand Nubian,
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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.