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 Uganda 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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 Archie Shepp. All the underground hits.
All Circle Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerrie Biddell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dorothy Ashby,
Groovy Waters,
Bad Manners,
Max Romeo,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lower 48,
The Monks,
The Buckinghams,
Average White Band,
Magazine,
Flamin' Groovies,
Spandau Ballet,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Jandek,
The Detroit Cobras,
Symarip,
Crime,
Crash Course in Science,
John Lydon,
Rod Modell,
Man Parrish,
UT,
T.S.O.L.,
Alphaville,
Kurtis Blow,
Tres Demented,
X-101,
Tubeway Army,
Interpol,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Morten Harket,
Absolute Body Control,
Heaven 17,
OOIOO,
Mo-Dettes,
Bang On A Can,
Bootsy Collins,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Smoke,
The Misunderstood,
Young Marble Giants,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Brothers Johnson,
KRS-One,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Matthew Halsall,
Bill Wells,
Soul II Soul,
Brick,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Neon Judgement,
Black Pus,
The Human League,
Ten City,
The Vogues,
X-Ray Spex,
John Holt,
Echospace,
The Cure,
Chrome,
Cymande,
The Sonics,
Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron.
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.