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 Chile and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Kenny Larkin 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 The Cosmic Jokers. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Associates record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sound,
Alison Limerick,
Be Bop Deluxe,
CMW,
Dennis Brown,
EPMD,
Black Sheep,
Mantronix,
Interpol,
Funky Four + One,
Anthony Braxton,
Marc Almond,
Altered Images,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Agitation Free,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Sonics,
ABC,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Dual Sessions,
The Dave Clark Five,
Heaven 17,
Section 25,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Joe Finger,
These Immortal Souls,
Vladislav Delay,
Liliput,
Animal Collective,
Sonic Youth,
Moebius,
Janne Schatter,
Minutemen,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Terry Callier,
Das Ding,
Lightning Bolt,
The Fall,
Fat Boys,
Eden Ahbez,
Roxy Music,
Boredoms,
The Human League,
Rapeman,
Echospace,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Gladiators,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Barrington Levy,
Sandy B,
Rufus Thomas,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Johnny Osbourne,
Freddie Wadling,
The Detroit Cobras,
Khruangbin,
Cheater Slicks,
Shoche,
Pantytec,
Cal Tjader,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.