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 Serbia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the theremin 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 The Fortunes to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon. All the underground hits.
All Newcleus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bluetip record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Human League,
Todd Rundgren,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
8 Eyed Spy,
Das Ding,
Minnie Riperton,
The Blackbyrds,
Brand Nubian,
The Busters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Simply Red,
Stockholm Monsters,
Animal Collective,
Supertramp,
Youth Brigade,
Alice Coltrane,
The Kinks,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Slits,
Mars,
Throbbing Gristle,
Franke,
The Walker Brothers,
Chris Corsano,
Wolf Eyes,
The Durutti Column,
Soft Cell,
The Victims,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sound Behaviour,
Sarah Menescal,
Unrelated Segments,
Outsiders,
Kenny Larkin,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bang On A Can,
Henry Cow,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bobby Hutcherson,
10cc,
Roy Ayers,
Nils Olav,
Rapeman,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Khruangbin,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Yaz,
Joe Finger,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Scan 7,
Wings,
Charles Mingus,
Altered Images,
Eve St. Jones,
Warren Ellis,
Hasil Adkins,
The Smiths,
The Evens,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.