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 Jordan and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 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 Panda Bear to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Second Layer. All the underground hits.
All Parry Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Detroit Cobras record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultra Naté record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba 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?
Sixth Finger,
Howard Jones,
Lightning Bolt,
David McCallum,
Skaos,
Joy Division,
Ken Boothe,
Scott Walker,
Max Romeo,
Ice-T,
10cc,
Lalo Schifrin,
Soft Machine,
In Retrospect,
Lebanon Hanover,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Byron Stingily,
FM Einheit,
Outsiders,
Neu!,
Scratch Acid,
Pagans,
The Gap Band,
Talk Talk,
Pantaleimon,
Wasted Youth,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Davy DMX,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kerri Chandler,
Kevin Saunderson,
Clear Light,
Cabaret Voltaire,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Cramps,
Michelle Simonal,
Don Cherry,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Index,
X-Ray Spex,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Fear,
Grauzone,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Joensuu 1685,
Fat Boys,
Technova,
the Soft Cell,
Angry Samoans,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Brick,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Beau Brummels,
Bill Near,
Marine Girls,
48th St. Collective,
The Count Five,
The Barracudas,
Josef K,
Accadde A,
Goldenarms,
The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke.
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.