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 Pakistan and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 harpsichord 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 Kevin Saunderson to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Susan Cadogan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cowsills,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Dave Gahan,
cv313,
Jacob Miller,
Scan 7,
Derrick Morgan,
The Wake,
Main Source,
Matthew Bourne,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Mission of Burma,
Cal Tjader,
Crime,
Lungfish,
Warren Ellis,
Faust,
the Fania All-Stars,
Man Parrish,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Massinfluence,
Boz Scaggs,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ken Boothe,
Bootsy Collins,
The Searchers,
The Slackers,
Amon Düül,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Radiohead,
Kerri Chandler,
Pierre Henry,
Gang Starr,
Half Japanese,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Faraquet,
The Buckinghams,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Tim Buckley,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Hashim,
The Moleskins,
Soul Sonic Force,
Popol Vuh,
Tres Demented,
Boogie Down Productions,
Skarface,
Dark Day,
Fluxion,
Ultimate Spinach,
Albert Ayler,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Man Eating Sloth,
Nas,
Kenny Larkin,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
LL Cool J,
Derrick May,
The Doobie Brothers,
One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.
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.