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 Grenada and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Soul Sonic Force to the electroclash 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 Glenn Branca. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monolake 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Sound Behaviour,
The Blackbyrds,
K-Klass,
LL Cool J,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Jawbox,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Birthday Party,
China Crisis,
Model 500,
Donny Hathaway,
The Fire Engines,
FM Einheit,
Heaven 17,
Sun Ra,
Pantytec,
Lyres,
Monks,
Mary Jane Girls,
Intrusion,
Jeru the Damaja,
Reagan Youth,
Bootsy Collins,
Fatback Band,
Aloha Tigers,
Dawn Penn,
Cameo,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sam Rivers,
Theoretical Girls,
Al Stewart,
Spoonie Gee,
La Düsseldorf,
Dead Boys,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Drexciya,
The Kinks,
Todd Rundgren,
Cecil Taylor,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bronski Beat,
Amazonics,
Colin Newman,
Bang On A Can,
Lebanon Hanover,
Delta 5,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Radiopuhelimet,
Judy Mowatt,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Sixth Finger,
10cc,
R.M.O.,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Zeros,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ralphi Rosario,
PIL,
Tom Boy,
H. Thieme,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.